Thailand boosts data protection following massive elderly PII leak

In a bid to combat personal data leaks, the Thai authorities pledged to strengthen protective measures. Next month, 85 organisations, each handling over 100,000 personal datasets, will face on-site audits. Half of these audits are expected to be completed by August, as confirmed by the Secretary-General of the National Cyber Security Agency (NCSA), Amorn Chomchoey.

A recent report from cybersecurity company Resecurity Inc. exposed cybercriminals for leaking large quantities of stolen personally identifiable information (PII) from Thailand on the dark web. A dataset labelled Thailand DOP.go.th Leaked was discovered on the site breachedforums. is. This dataset, primarily containing the PII of Thailand’s elderly population, is estimated to be around 690 megabytes, containing nearly 19.7 million rows of data, reported Bangkok Post.

Amorn clarified that the…