More than 11,000 DBS, Bank of China customers' information c...

SINGAPORE - Customer data from two banks here were stolen in a ransomware attack on a vendor, though no log-in information was compromised. In a joint statement late on April 7, the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA) and Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said the two banks were DBS Bank and Bank of China, Singapore (BOC). DBS said that the customer statements of around 8,200 customers were potentially compromised, while BOC separately said that the breach affected around 3,000 customers, whose paper letters were printed and distributed by Toppan Next Tech (TNT). According to DBS, affected customers are mainly users of brokerage DBS Vickers and short-term loan service Cashline. The potentially compromised information came from encrypted statements or letters sent to individual customers for the period dating December 2024 until February 2025. Customer data exposed in statem...