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The Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) informed in a media release this Wednesday that a total of 1560 IDs and passwords of SingPass members have been accessed illegitimately. IDA is still in the process of notifying all the users
Mr Chong Rong Hwa, a Staff Malware Researcher from FireEye told Channel NewsAsia that the SingPass details could have been stolen from users’ computers. “Or, the hackers themselves may have gotten the (SingPass) user name which is your IC number. From there, they can actually easily guess the passwords. If the users have a very weak password, they can actually break into their accounts easily.”
Another cyber security expert, Mr Anthony Lim stressed that all SingPass users should change their current passwords. “When you change your password, any password or database of passwords that anyone has, immediately becomes obsolete. Secondly, when you change your password, and today we’re encouraged to make it more complicated — add question marks and full stops and capital letters or numerics. Then it gets harder for anyone to trace any pattern of a password. That’s why we say never use your birthday, never use your identity card number, never use your dog’s name, unless you change dogs.”
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