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SINGAPORE - Keppel Telecommunications & Transportation (KTT) has been fined $120,000 after it failed to delete personal data from a server of a business it sold in 2022, which was then hacked. The Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) said in a decision, published online on Aug 2, that the personal data, which belonged to about 22,659 people, was at risk of being accessed without permission and being leaked. The affected people included employees and former employees of KTT and its subsidiaries, KTT's shareholders when it was listed on the Singapore Exchange, and those who had business or commercial dealings with the company. Evidence of the data leak emerged when a ransomware group published nine encrypted files on the Dark Web, along with what it claimed to be a list detailing the encrypted files' contents. This was linked to up to 7,184 individuals' personal data stored in the...