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Singapore official flags weak cyber hygiene amid growing data breaches

By Jet Damazo-Santos ( July 7, 2025, 07:48 GMT | Insight) -- Singapore’s deputy personal-data protection commissioner has called on companies to urgently tighten basic cybersecurity measures, warning that weak digital hygiene continues to drive a surge in ransomware attacks and large-scale data breaches across industries. Citing a recent report covering 2023–2024, Denise Wong said cyber incidents accounted for 82 percent of the regulator's enforcement cases, with ransomware attacks specifically making up 62 percent of these enforcement actions. Singapore’s deputy personal-data protection commissioner has called on companies to urgently tighten basic cybersecurity measures, warning that weak digital hygiene continues to drive a surge in ransomware attacks and large-scale data breaches across industries....

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