SOMETIME between May and July 2014, Malaysia suffered its biggest ever data breach, involving the personal details of 46.2 million subscriptions of all 14 telcos in the country, among others. This means that unknown persons have had three years to make use of this data, for anything from scams to identify theft. The day The Star ran a story on his effort, our office was inundated by calls from members of the public. In the tech community, Rozario would be known as a “white hat hacker”, one of the good guys, as opposed to the black hats who have malevolent motives. It is a pity that instead of lauding his effort, too many of us decided to shoot the messenger.

Source: The Star November 18, 2017 23:48 UTC