SINGAPORE - Several companies have been fined a total of $75,000 for breaches and lapses that have affected the personal data of more than 600,000 people, including their names and contact numbers, and, in some cases, financial information.

This included the data of 98,000 Ministry of Defence staff and Singapore Armed Forces servicemen for a breach in 2019 due to a well-known vulnerability that was knowingly left open for more than four years by healthcare training provider HMI Institute of Health Sciences.