'100 million personal records stolen, amend data laws immediately'

Putrajaya has been urged to amend the Personal Data Protection Act 2010 (PDPA) following repeated reports that personal data held by commercial or government entities have been compromised.

In a statement today, PKR communications director and Lembah Pantai MP Fahmi Fadzil estimated that 100 million individual personal records have been compromised over the past five years based on known leaks.

Fahmi, citing eight such incidents including the infamous...