{"id":88346,"date":"2026-09-27T19:35:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T11:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=88346"},"modified":"2026-09-27T19:35:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T11:35:28","slug":"more-than-23500-simba-customers-affected-in-data-breach-involving-ic-numbers-birth-dates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=88346","title":{"rendered":"More than 23,500 Simba customers affected in data breach involving IC numbers, birth dates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SINGAPORE: Telecommunications company Simba has suffered a data breach affecting 23,549 customers, involving names, identity card numbers and dates of birth.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the company&#8217;s investigations so far, the data affected also included mobile numbers and email addresses of customers who had registered for Simba&#8217;s services.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Friday (Sep 25), Simba said it had discovered the incident a day earlier and had since resolved it.<\/p>\n<p>No credit card or bank account information is &#8220;at risk&#8221;, the company said.<\/p>\n<p>The company added that there was currently no indication that any of the affected data had been &#8220;maliciously misused&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Simba is treating this incident seriously and have swiftly resolved it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have also taken immediate and appropriate actions to review existing security measures to protect core infrastructure and systems,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>It is also working with the relevant authorities on the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The company is also progressively notifying affected customers via email, with the process expected to be completed within the next week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/more-23500-simba-customers-affected-in-data-breach-involving-ic-numbers-birth-dates-6413636\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE: Telecommunications company Simba has suffered a data breach affecting 23,549 customers, involving names, identity card numbers and dates of birth. Based on the company&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--HeVeXcNS--\/c_crop,h_900,w_1600,x_0,y_84\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/fl_relative,g_south_east,l_mediacorp:cna:watermark:2021-08:cna,w_0.1\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2026\/05\/18\/20250818_bk_br-telcos_simba_2a.jpg?itok=VcxWsber","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[745,2183,7138,746,4378,1942,2393,5022,7070],"class_list":["post-88346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-affected","tag-birth","tag-breach","tag-customers","tag-data","tag-dates","tag-involving","tag-numbers","tag-simba","wpcat-2-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}