Minister: No comment on news report on source of massive data breach


Datuk Seri Dr Salleh Said Keruak. -Bernama filepic

KUALA LUMPUR: The Communications and Multimedia Minister declined to comment on a news report that the massive data breach of Malaysian mobile subscriptions could be traced to a phone blocking service initiated by the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC).

“I don’t want to comment. Ask the MCMC,” Datuk Seri Dr Salleh Said Keruak told reporters in Parliament here on Monday.

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