Mobile Guardian hack wipes more than 13,000 phones
Device management service Mobile Guardian was hit by a cyberattack that wiped more than 13,000 phones. It also emerged that a student had raised security concerns about Mobile Guardian's device management system weeks before the attack.
Key facts
- Affected organization
- Mobile Guardian
- Incident type
- Hacking & intrusion
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- More than 13,000 phones wiped
- Cause / method
- Remote wipe via a hack of the device management service
- Location
- Singapore
Timeline
- It emerged that more than 13,000 phones had been wiped in the Mobile Guardian hack.
- It came to light that a student had raised security concerns about the device management system weeks before the attack.
Also affected by this incident
Mobile Guardian security breach wipes 13,000 student devices
↳ Knock-on damage from the Mobile Guardian incident · View original incidentImpact: Data wiped from 13,000 student devices
A global security breach at Mobile Guardian wiped data from 13,000 student devices. Singapore's Ministry of Education decided to remove the Mobile Guardian app from all student devices. It later took legal action against the contractor, and a replacement app was expected to be introduced by January 2025.
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