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SINGAPORE - Singapore s cyber security watchdog has issued an alert following the discovery of vulnerabilities in more than 100 million Internet-connected devices globally, ranging from medical equipment and wearable fitness products to critical industrial control systems in the energy and power sectors.
Sounding the alarm on Thursday (April 15), the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore s Singapore Computer Emergency Response Team (SingCert) said: Administrators of the affected stacks are advised to apply the patch immediately.
Security patches have already been rolled out to address the vulnerabilities, which allow cyber crooks to gain control of devices and computer systems and take them offline.
Organisations in the healthcare and government sectors are the most affected, said security researchers. Other sectors implicated include entertainment, retail, manufacturing, financial services and technology.
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e2i provides skills training and job matching services for workers.
According to their e2i website, anyone who participated in certain e2i’s events or utilised their services such as having attended a job fair, employability workshop, or career coaching could have been affected.
Alerted to a data incident where the mailbox of an employee of a third-party vendor, contact centre services firm i-vic International, had been infected by malware, e2i launched an investigation and reported this data breach to the Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) and the Singapore Computer Emergency Response Team (SingCERT).
NTUC s e2i data breach puts 30k individuals data at risk of exposure Details 07 April 2021
NTUC s Employment and Employability Institute (e2i) has been involved in a data breach, putting personal data of approximately 30,000 individuals at risk. The company, which provides skills training and job matching services, said a malware had infected a mailbox belonging to an employee of e2i s appointed third-party vendor, i-vic International on 12 March. The data security incident may have then resulted in an unauthorised access to the affected mailbox that contained personal data of users who have used e2i s services.
The affected individuals are those who had participated in certain e2i’s events or utilised e2i’s services previously from November 2018 until 12 March 2021, e2i said. For instance, they attended a job fair, employability workshop or career coaching. According to the company, the potentially affected personal data may i