Security News > 2021 > September > MyRepublic Data Breach Raises Data-Protection Questions

Almost 79,400 MyRepublic mobile subscribers have been caught up in a data breach that exposed a range of personal information, the company has confirmed.

The intrusion in question was aimed at a third-party data storage platform used to store the personal data of MyRepublic's mobile customers, the firm noted, in a Friday website notice.

Setu Kulkarni, vice president of strategy at NTT Application Security, told Threatpost that he had some questions as to how the data was being protected.

"While this incident is reported as unauthorized data access, which is serious enough, it likely points to an even more serious systemic issue with the way security for this critical data at rest is being implemented."

"The incident has been contained, MyRepublic said, because"the unauthorized access to the data storage facility has since been secured.

The firm added that it contacted Singapore's Infocomm Media Development Authority and Personal Data Protection Commission to help get to the bottom of the attack, while tapping KPMG in Singapore to "Work closely with MyRepublic's internal IT and Network teams to resolve the incident."

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https://threatpost.com/myrepublic-data-breach-protection/169382/