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SINGAPORE: The identifiers and passwords of about 50,000 Singapore government messaging accounts were found in "illegal databanks" in January, but most were obsolete or "false addresses", announced Authorities Thursday, March 21st.
"In January 2019, GovTech was notified of the presence of email identification data in illegal databases. This information includes email addresses and passwords provided by people, "said a spokesperson for the Smart Nation and Digital Government group.
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About 50,000 of the compromised details were government e-mail addresses, the spokesman said, but only 119 addresses were still used. The others were "obsolete or false addresses," he said.
According to the Russian group-IB cyber security company, the compromised identification information involved accounts of the Ministry of Education (MOE), the Ministry of Health (MOH), the Singapore Police and the National University of Singapore.
"As an immediate precaution, all agents whose credentials have been assigned have changed their passwords," said the Smart Nation and Digital Government spokesperson.
No other information was disclosed with the exception of the email address and password.
The spokesman added that the powers were not disclosed by government systems, but by the use of these addresses for personal and non-official purposes.
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"Agents were reminded not to use the government's e-mail addresses for such purposes as part of basic eHealth," the spokesman said.
Group-IB also said in its press release to have detected 19,928 compromised payment cards related to Singapore banks on the dark web last year. This was a jump of 56% over the previous year.
The company added that the underground market value of Singapore bank cards rose last year to about S $ 640,000.
The Singapore Ministry of Health has been hit by four computer incidents in the last nine months, including the June SingHealth cyberattack, which saw the medical record of 1.5 million Singaporeans stolen.
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