Security News > 2021 > November > Singaporean regulator punishes biggest-ever data breach: almost 5.9 million hotel customers' info exposed

Singapore's Personal Data Protection Commission has issued a fine of SG$74,000 on travel company Commeasure, which operates a travel booking website named RedDoorz that exposed 5.9 million customers' data - the largest data breach handled by the Commission since its inception.

RedDoorz started life in Indonesia before moving its operations to Singapore, from where it aggregates budget hotel bookings in select Southeast Asian cities.

A user selects a budget hotel from RedDoorz based on photos, area and price, not always knowing the actual name or location of the hotel.

Commeasure learned there was a data breach of its RedDoorz customers back in September 2020, when an Atlanta-based cybersecurity firm notified the parent company of a hack and offered remedial services.

Within a week, the travel tech company informed the PDPC. The stolen data included names, contact numbers, email addresses, birthdays, encrypted RedDoorz account passwords and booking information.

RedDoorz did make attempts to protect the data - for example by hiring cybersecurity companies and using Java obfuscation tool Proguard to prevent APK reverse engineering - but it was all in vain because the relevant file was never evaluated.

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