Carousell investigating how many Malaysians affected by data breach


According to Carousell, the flaw that caused the breach has since been fixed. — CHRISTOPHER FAM/The Star

PETALING JAYA: Following the discovery that the data of 2.6 million Carousell users had been uploaded to an online forum for sale, the ecommerce platform has confirmed that Malaysian users were affected by the data breach.

"We are still investigating the total number of impacted accounts, rest assured we will notify the affected users as soon as we can," a Carousell spokesperson said in a statement to LifestyleTech.

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