THE leak of Malaysian mobile phone subscribers’ data has been traced to an IP address in Oman, the New Straits Times reports, quoting Inspector-General of Police Mohamad Fuzi Harun.

Fuzi said a police-Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission investigating team traced the data leak to an Internet protocol address in the Arabian peninsula country.

He also said no arrest had been made so far as the case was “complicated”.

Investigations were ongoing and telecommunications companies had not been excluded from the list of suspects, Fuzi added.

Earlier this week, he said the data breach could have taken place during a data transaction and could have involved employees of a company. 

The leak, involving 46.2 million phone subscriber accounts, is believed to have occurred between 2014 and 2015, and involved records of various telcos and medical councils and associations.

The breach was first revealed in an article published by online forum Lowyat.net last month, which was subsequently removed on orders from the MCMC. – November 18, 2017.