Singapore CARA app breach may have exposed members’ personal data
A security breach involving unauthorised notifications occurred in the CARA app run by Dementia Singapore, which supports people with dementia and their carers in Singapore. Some members’ names, email addresses, telephone numbers and membership numbers may have been exposed, but identification document numbers were not included. The external app provider contained the incident, and the organisation is investigating the extent of the impact with the provider.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Dementia Singapore
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Possible exposure of some members’ personal data; number of people affected not disclosed
- Cause / method
- Not confirmed
- Location
- Singapore
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Timeline
- Unauthorised notifications were sent through the CARA app, and the possible exposure of some members’ personal data became known.
- The external app provider’s containment of the incident and an investigation into the extent of the impact were reported, and identification document numbers were confirmed not to be among the potentially exposed information.
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