SINGAPORE: An employment agency that suffered a data breach earlier this month has issued a press release acknowledging the incident, however mentioned it by no means acquired any ransom demand to get better the information.
In its first feedback on the assault, Protemps Employment Companies mentioned on Oct 27 that a lot of the stolen knowledge was from pretend profiles.
Protemps’ total server had its knowledge stolen and deleted on Oct 4, and the stolen knowledge was uploaded on-line three days later.
The hackers claiming the assault referred to as themselves Desorden Group.
The info purportedly contained the private particulars of about 40,000 individuals who had submitted job purposes to the corporate.
Nonetheless, Dorothy Neo, the managing director of Protemps, instructed The Straits Instances on Wednesday that the precise variety of individuals affected was lower than that claimed by the hackers.
She mentioned a lot of the purported particulars have been from pretend resumes despatched to the corporate by way of spam accounts, and that solely 2,500 actual candidates have been affected.
Of those, she mentioned solely 300 profiles contained “full particulars”, together with schooling background, salaries, contact numbers and addresses.
Desorden Group had made a video displaying the stolen recordsdata and databases and which carried a warning to Protemps to “consider carefully”.
Nonetheless, Neo mentioned Protemps neither acquired nor paid any ransom demand, which is often the explanation for such knowledge theft.
“There was no ransom notice despatched to our vendor or Protemps to pay any quantity to safe the discharge of information on our web site,” she mentioned.
“Protemps is dedicated to help our prospects as we resolve this incident.”
She added that Protemps, which has an workplace at Paya Lebar Sq., has contacted these affected to inform them of the breach.
The Private Information Safety Fee was alerted to the incident, which was reported by The Straits Instances on Oct 21, and investigations are ongoing.
Neo had initially declined to remark, however mentioned she was selecting to take action now as the corporate’s working relationship with purchasers had been affected.
Desorden Group is thought to focus on organisations associated to produce chains.
Its title is Spanish and interprets into “dysfunction and chaos”.
The info stolen from Protemps had been accessed by greater than 60 entities when the breach was reported final week.
It has since been accessed by about 120 entities. – The Straits Instances (Singapore)/Asia Information Community
