Miti’s portal Pikas allegedly leaked private employee data


Workers waiting to be vaccinated at a Pikas vaccination centre in Kuala Lumpur. A cybersecurity expert claimed that the unsecured Pikas portal server allowed him to view over 2,000 files. — AZHAR MAHFOF/The Star.

PETALING JAYA: A cybersecurity expert alleged that millions of personal records belonging to Malaysian workers were exposed on a government portal.

Dr. Suresh Ramasamy wrote on LinkedIn that he was alerted about the possible data leak on the Public-Private Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (Pikas) website. Pikas is an initiative of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI).

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