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2020 ShopBack — 1.5M users, S$74,400 fine

2020 1.5M records affected Share on X

Data compromised

Emails, names, phones, bank accounts, partial card numbers

Technical writeup

Access key leaked by senior engineer. 1.5M emails, 840K names, 447K mobile numbers, 299K bank accounts, 378K credit card instances. Data sold on Raidforums. PDPC fined S$74,400 for inadequate access key management.

Root cause

Leaked access key; inadequate key management

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