Personal data of 300,000 K Box Singapore clients surfaces online

SINGAPORE – The personal data of over 300,000 customers of karaoke chain K Box Singapore have been posted online.

At least five customers have confirmed with The Straits Times that the leaked database contains their names, addresses and mobile phone and identity card numbers, although some information is outdated. Details of celebrities who are members of the karaoke chain also appear to have been posted. K Box membership numbers and loyalty points earned were also exposed.

The leak of K Box’s membership database is being investigated by privacy watchdog, the Personal Data Protection Commission, which said it is “concerned about the scale” of the alleged breach.

Organisations must take “reasonable measures” to protect personal data in their possession, said the commission, citing privacy laws which came into force on July 2. Continue reading “Personal data of 300,000 K Box Singapore clients surfaces online”

Delete a MySQL Database on Linux

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These instructions are intended for deleting a MySQL database on Linux via the command line.
I’ll be working from a Liquid Web Core Managed CentOS 7 server, and I’ll be logged in as root.

First we’ll login to the MySQL server from the command line with the following command:

mysql -u root -p
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