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The Singapore Red Cross becomes the latest Singapore entity to have its website hacked, thus exposing potentially the data of about 4,297 potential Singaporean blood donors. The unauthorized access happened on May 8th, but the leak was only made public by the Singapore Red Cross (SRC) on 16 May.

At 9.05AM today, an internet forummer posted a photo of CTC Travel website, which had allegedly been hacked by a group known as Anonymous Arabe. CTC is a popular local travel agency.

PAP Member Lionel de Souza, who is serving under grassroots advisor Lee Hong Chuang in Hougang SMC allegedly posted child pornography on his facebook page, then claimed that his account was hacked by a woman whom he suspected of being a mole of SDP. Another PAP member Suhaimi Hafidz (who is serving in Aljunied) then asked for the woman's profile picture.

Hackers breached and defaced the website of the Credit Bureau Singapore (CBS), which was forced to put up a notice on its website yesterday announcing that it has "temporarily shut down its online service for consumers to purchase a copy of their credit report".

We have dismissed Mr Ello Ed Mundsel Bello from our Hospital immediately for his offensive online comments made in 2014 while in our Hospital’s employment. These comments were highly irresponsible and offensive to Singapore and religion. They have distressed members of the public and our hospital staff. His conduct goes against our staff values of respect, professionalism and social responsibility.

Singapore Facebook user Sherry Ong received Facebook private messages from a personal friend who sought help to with cash flow problem with promise to return the funds at a later time. However, Sherry found the request suspicious and proceeded to ask a few questions to verify the authenticity of the person behind her friend's Facebook profile. She was right. It turned out that her friend's account was breached.

The Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) said, "Preliminary investigations indicate that there was no breach of any systems within the banks. All affected customers in Singapore will not be liable for these unauthorized transactions. Banks are working with the credit card associations to investigate these incidences." The real reason why the frauds took place was because ComGateway was hacked and hundreds of thousands of consumers' credit cards and cvc numbers were compromised. Yes, they were stolen because ComGateway, one of the major online concierge/forwarding provider, did not secure the information stored with them. In other words, consumers were open to fraudulent charges not only from Neweb but also any company which the crooks had connection to or sold the information to.

Yahoo alerted users of its free email service on Thursday that hackers slipped into accounts to loot information using stolen passwords. The California company did not disclose the extent of the breach, but said that it is asking those affected to change their passwords.