Personal details of over 200,000 Malaysian organ donors leaked online: report

Leaked data includes the donor's name, identification card number, race, nationality, address and phone numbers, it said.

By: Reuters | Kuala Lumpur | Published: January 24, 2018 9:37 am

Personal details of over 200,000 Malaysian organ donors and their next of kin have been leaked (Representational Image)

Personal details of over 200,000 Malaysian organ donors and their next of kin have been leaked, with the data available online for over a year, a local tech portal reported on Tuesday.

This is the second big data leak reported in Malaysia in three months. In November, Malaysia said it was investigating an alleged attempt to sell personal data of more than 46 million mobile phone subscribers online, in what could be one of the largest leaks of customer data in Asia.

Files containing details of 220,000 pledged organ donors were leaked online as early as September 2016, Lowyat.net reported on Tuesday. The source was not idenitified.