Singtel‍‍`s second unit faces cyber attack

Singapore Telecommunications Ltd (Singtel) announced on Monday (October 10) that hackers have hacked a second subsidiary of the business.

According to a statement released by SingTel on Monday, data on less than 20 clients and 1,000 current and former employees may have been obtained through a breach on the technology consulting firm that SingTel purchased earlier this year.

A "very small sample" of company data, which included employee personal data, had been made public on the so-called Dark Web as of Oct. 7. The actual incident happened on September 10—nearly a month earlier.

Optus, a SingTel affiliate in Australia, disclosed last month that one of the largest-ever breaches in the nation had exposed information on 9.8 million former and present customers as a result of a significant security breach. Identity document numbers belonging to more than 2 million people were stolen, raising worries of widespread financial fraud.