Press Digest - Leaked personal data victims urged to complain

A bit of news for any members out in Malaysia now.
 
31st December 2015  By Kong See Hoh
 
PETALING JAYA: The Personal Data Protection Department (JPDP) urges parents of students whose personal data were reportedly leaked to demand an explanation from the Education Ministry.
 
JPDP said if they are not happy with the ministry's explanation, they can lodge complaints with the department, Sin Chew Daily reported today.
 
The department was commenting on the daily's report on Wednesday that detailed personal information of some 300,000 SPM and STPM students and their parents/guardians were available for a fee.
 
A "whistleblower" who tipped off the paper said a peddler who claimed to be acting for a student recruitment agency had been offering the classified information obtained from the Education Department and selling them to private colleges for RM1,500.
 
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