The Singapore Land Authority (SLA) disclosed a cybersecurity breach within a cloud environment managed by IBM.
Unauthorized parties accessed a testing dataset containing personal information for approximately 70,000 individuals.
The compromised data included unanonymized names, NRIC numbers, and property addresses.
This dataset originated in 1998 and received periodic updates for system development and testing.
SLA confirmed the breach occurred in an environment separate from its live operational systems.
IBM has revoked access to the affected test environment.
Authorities have received a police report regarding the incident.
SLA has started notifying the affected individuals.