Malaysians’ personal data allegedly being sold openly on the Internet (Update: Site is down)


Searching a person by the MyKad ID, for instance, will reveal the person’s full name, date of birth, gender and house address. — 123rf.com

Update: The website went into maintenance mode before it was taken down at about 6pm.

PETALING JAYA: Thanks to a string of data leaks, the personal information of Malaysians has been sold on the darknet in the past. However, now a website is allegedly selling the data on the publicly accessible Internet, or clearnet, collating information from multiple breaches.

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