KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 14 — This has certainly been a week for cyber-security awareness and #facepalm moments, with a telecommunications provider having been hacked just days before a major event on security was held in Kuala Lumpur, and a minister making a statement that essentially told hackers to bring it on.

On Nov 11, Malay-language technology blog Amanz.my reported that Celcom’s systems had been breached by a hacker group calling itself GaySec, which then posted details – parts of names, phone numbers and MyKad (the national identity card) numbers – from some 3,000 customers from the company’s 2012 database.

Details are sketchy, although a source close to the company told Digital News Asia (DNA) that he believed core systems were unaffected, noting that what was posted by GaySec was “old data.”

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