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Ang Qing reports from Singapore: A company running online language lessons for children around the world used a password based on its website name, LingoAce, making it vulnerable to the data breach that resulted. More than half a million users were affected. Among personal data compromised were the cellphone numbers, bank account numbers, signatures and […]

Laura Dobberstein reports: Brain Cipher, the group responsible for hacking into Indonesia’s Temporary National Data Center (PDNS) and disrupting the country’s services, has seemingly apologized for its actions and released an encryption key to the government. That key was in the form of an 54 kb ESXi file. Its efficacy has not yet been confirmed.

CNA reports: Singapore: Upset that he was fired, an employee accessed his former company’s computer test systems and deleted 180 virtual servers, costing them about S$918,000 (US$678,000). Kandula Nagaraju, 39, was sentenced to two years and eight months’ jail on Monday (Jun 10) for one charge of unauthorised access to computer material. Another charge was