Thursday, November 2, 2017

Mobile phone users, information Malaysia leak 46.2 million mobile users.


Malaysia prepared to investigate leakage of user information 46.2 million mobile numbers in the country, which is considered a data leakage, one of the largest Asian and believe that data leakage will affect almost all of Malaysia's residents.

Malaysian Communication and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), which is the Internet side, agencies in the country, it has investigated this matter and then by Salleh Said Keruak Minister, Ministry of communications and multimedia says: We have identified the ways that may be possible in the leak investigation and is likely to finish soon.



For information on this leak. In the report, said that there is a whole list of mobile phone, identity card number, home address and the customer's SIM card information 46.2 million number. From network providers and MVNO's all over 12 in Malaysia, including any Axiata Group, big, Maxis and Celcom Digi with which cyber security researcher revealed that data on these wide enough to let the criminals create fake sign-in to online shopping, which Justin Lie's ceo Cashshield fraud protection company from Singapore compare this case with credit agencies like Equifax company of the U.S.

These data are being sold in underground forums at about 1 Bitcoin, which has been downloaded more than 10 people before it went offline. These data and the timestamp of the last update was about a month from May to June 2014.

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