The majority of the government data incidents in the financial year ending Mar 31 were assessed to be of low severity, according to a report by the Ministry of Digital Development and Information.
SINGAPORE: There were 201 government data incidents in the financial year of 2023, a 10 per cent increase from the 182 incidents reported the previous year.
Low-severity incidents are defined as those that have"minimal impact" on agencies, individuals or businesses. "In addition, improved awareness among public officers on the need to report incidents may have also contributed to the increase." Upon further investigation, 14 were classified as data incidents involving government agencies. The remaining 39 reports were related to data incidents in the private sector and general queries.Personal information of parents, staff at 127 schools accessed in data security breachThe Public Sector Data Security Review Committee provided five key recommendations in 2019 to improve the government's data security regime.
In the last financial year, the government completed two recommendations: Minimising data collection, retention, access and downloads, as well as protecting data directly when it is stored and distributed to make sure it is unusable even when extracted.In the last year, it expanded a central privacy toolkit called Cloak. This allows public officers to apply"privacy-enhancing technologies" to datasets while preserving the data's value for sharing and use.
Enhancements have also been made to the government’s Data Loss Protection tool that mitigates the accidental loss of classified or sensitive data from government networks, systems, and devices.
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