Hong Kong's privacy regulator recorded nearly 250 data leakage incidents last year, an increase of more than 20% over the previous year, with one-third of the incidents involving hacking attacks, according to the HKFC....
When Marina Bay Sands undertook a massive software migration, it resulted in the leakage of more than 660,000 customers' data, which was sold on the Dark Web. The IAC noted that Sands admitted to breaching its obligation to take reasonable security measures to protect the personal data it held....
SECURITY INSIDER, Sept. 25 (Bloomberg) -- OK Convenience Stores (Circle K), Hong Kong's second-largest convenience store chain, said a "network outage" has paralyzed its operations in the city for several days, forcing the suspension of most of the e-payment and membership services at nearly 400 outlets across the territory....
Following in the footsteps of Dior and Cartier, French luxury goods company Louis Vuitton has also "failed" to secure its users' data, with unauthorized third parties gaining temporary access to the company's systems....
(Hong Kong, October 17, 2025) Recently, there have been a number of data leakage incidents, and a third-party service platform of Qantas Airways (Qantas) was attacked by social engineering, resulting in the theft of 5.7 million customers' data, of which about 20,000 customers in Hong Kong were affected....