Property firm OrangeTee & Tie fined S$37k over data breach affecting more than 250,000 customers, employees

In total, 256,583 people were affected by the data breach, most of them customers of OrangeTee & Tie. - ST FILE

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Real estate firm OrangeTee & Tie has been fined S$37,000 after the Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) found that the data of more than 250,000 customers, employees and agents had been compromised.

In a written judgment on Monday, the PDPC said OrangeTee & Tie had breached the protection obligation it had to sufficiently assess the security risks in the way it handled users’ personal data, and had failed to conduct reasonable security reviews.