PDPC to investigate cybersecurity incident at Global Schools Group

The Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) will investigate a cybersecurity breach at the Global Schools Group, which runs the Global Indian International School in Singapore.

- Laura Chia

“PDPC is aware of the incident and will be investigating,” a PDPC spokesperson told The Sunday Times on June 10.

The incident, which was made known to ST on June 10, allegedly saw personal and sensitive information belonging to students, parents and staff obtained by hackers.

In an e-mail seen by ST, a note purporting to be from a group of hackers known as Fulcrum Sec claimed that 4.8 terabytes of data was compromised, including home addresses, passport numbers, salary information and private correspondence.

It is unclear how many people were affected.