The Singapore Art Musuem (SAM) said in a statement on Nov. 20 that the personal information of 4,000 individuals on the database of its website were compromised.
According to the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA), the records of these individuals — containing the names, email addresses, phone numbers and in some cases, the nationalities — were illegally published and uploaded to an overseas server.
Following the incident, SAM immediately removed all of the data from the website, filed a police report and contacted the site administrator in the overseas jurisdiction. The webpage containing the data was reportedly taken down in two hours.
Susie Lingham, director of SAM, said that the museum takes the matter very seriously and has apologised to those who are affected by what happened.
“Together with our parent ministry MCCY and the relevant authorities, we are doing everything possible to track down how this happened and prevent any similar future compromise of personal data,” she added.
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