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Singapore data privacy watchdog fines printing firm for personal-data breach

( November 8, 2016, 05:37 GMT | Insight) -- The Personal Data Protection Commission Singapore has fined Toh-Shi Printing Singapore S$25,000 ($18,000) for procedural failures that resulted in a personal-data privacy breach affecting about 8,000 policyholders of Aviva Public Officers Group Insurance Scheme, The Singapore Straits Times reports.The Personal Data Protection Commission Singapore has fined Toh-Shi Printing Singapore S$25,000 ($18,000) for procedural failures that resulted in a personal-data privacy breach affecting about 8,000 policyholders of Aviva Public Officers Group Insurance Scheme, The Singapore Straits Times reports. The printing and mail-out services firm had sent erroneous account statements containing policy details including listed dependents to the wrong policyholders. Toh-Shi, which had already been fined S$5,000 last year for its first data-privacy breach, is one of eight companies sanctioned by the PDPC for data breaches in the last six months. Under Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Act, parties that fail to protect personal data can be fined up to S$1 million per breach, the report adds....

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