{"id":42053,"date":"2017-01-27T10:09:51","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T03:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/privacy-watchdog-fines-propnex-for-data-breach\/"},"modified":"2017-01-27T10:20:48","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T03:20:48","slug":"privacy-watchdog-fines-propnex-for-data-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/privacy-watchdog-fines-propnex-for-data-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"Privacy watchdog fines PropNex for data breach"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThis is the second time that the real estate industry has been in the news over data privacy issues in recent years.
\nPropNex Realty has been fined $10,000 by the Personal Data Protection Commission, after it inadvertently leaked the personal data of 1,765 individuals online \u2013 the second time the real estate industry has been in the news over data privacy issues in the past three years, reported the Straits Times.
\nThe privacy watchdog began investigating PropNex in December 2015, after an unnamed woman complained that her name and mobile number, including those of her sisters, were found in an unsecured PDF file that were freely available online. As a result, she and her sisters had been receiving unsolicited marketing messages and calls from telemarketers and moneylenders.
\nIn its decision released earlier in the week, the commission noted that while PropNex removed the PDF file containing one item or all of the information \u2013 name, mobile number, e-mail address and residential address \u2013 of 1,765 persons in January 2016, the document had been posted on the Internet for several months.
\nThis comes as PropNex failed to detect the huge security flaw in its system for five months, despite periodic testings.
\nWith this, the commission ruled that PropNex violated the Personal Data Protection Act when it failed to take reasonable security measures to protect the personal data under its control or possession.
\nIt also directed PropNex to scan its system for more vulnerabilities, while barring it from sharing sensitive files among its agents until the security flaw has been fixed.
\nP&N Holdings, the holding company of PropNex, said the data leak was unintentional.
\n\u201cImmediately after notification, systems and procedures were enhanced\u2026 All such information is now protected with a password,\u201d said PropNex spokesperson Carolyn Goh.
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\nRomesh Navaratnarajah, Senior Editor at PropertyGuru, edited this story. To contact him about this or other stories, email romesh@propertyguru.com.sg
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\nSource : proppertyguru.com.sg\/Property Market
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