Marina Bay Sands fined $315,000 over 2023 data breach involving over 600k visitors
Source: The Straits Times
Published on: 2025-10-28 09:17
SINGAPORE - Marina Bay Sands (MBS) has been hit with a $315,000 fine by the Personal Data Protection Commission, two years after a data breach leaked the personal information of more than 600,000 visitors . The fine is the second-highest amount meted out by PDPC, after the $750,000 fine on the Integrated Health Information Systems (IHiS) for lapses in securing patient data which resulted in the nation's worst data breach in 2018. Since October 2022, the maximum penalty that a company with an annual turnover of more than $10 million in Singapore can face for a data breach is 10 per cent of its turnover, or $1 million. Previously, organisations that violated the PDPA would face a financial penalty of up to $1 million. "Under the revised financial penalty framework, the penalty (on MBS) accounted for the scale of the data breach which exposed the personal data of more than half a mi...
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