MORE than 23,500 Simba customers in Singapore have had personal information compromised in a data breach, the telecommunications company said in a statement on 25 September. The affected records relate to 23,549 people who registered for Simba services and include names, identity card numbers, dates of birth, mobile telephone numbers and email addresses.
Simba said credit card and bank account information was not involved. It also said it had no information indicating that the exposed data had been maliciously misused. The available report does not establish whether mobile customers, broadband customers or both were affected. The incident follows Singapore’s disclosure in February that four major telecommunications companies, including Simba, had been targeted by threat actors identified by Mandiant as UNC3886, which is believed to be a Chinese espionage group. However, there is currently no indication that the newly reported breach is connected to that activity.