Thailand’s Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) recently uncovered a significant privacy breach involving 5,261 organisations. Among these, a majority of 4,886 were government agencies from both central and local sectors. The lapse in data protection was observed between November 9 of the previous year and January 12.
The violations were primarily due to excessively revealing personal data on various websites and a noticeable absence of necessary security measures to safeguard this private information. Once identified, the PDPC office promptly notified all the implicated organisations, instructing them to rectify the identified security gaps.
In the same period, the PDPC office also managed to shut down 23 Facebook accounts involved in the illicit trade of personal data. This action further led to the arrest of five individuals actively participating in this illegal…
