CREDENTIALS from several government agencies and educational institutions, as well as more than 19,000 compromised payment cards from banks in Singapore, have been put up for sale online by hackers.
According to a press release from Group-IB, the organisations involved include the Government Technology Agency , Ministry of Education, Ministry of Health and the Singapore Police Force, as well as the National University of Singapore.that GovTech was alerted to the presence of email credentials in illegal data banks in January this year.The spokesman said:"These credentials comprise email addresses and passwords provided by individuals.
"Officers have been reminded not to use government email addresses for such purposes, as part of basic cyber hygiene," he said. "Users' accounts from government resources are either sold in underground forums or used in targeted attacks on government agencies for the purpose of espionage or sabotage," he said.
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