ZCZC
BFF-20
VIETNAM-EMAIL-EXPOSED
437,000 Vietnamese email accounts exposed
HANOI, Dec 28, 2017 (BSS/Xinhua) — Nearly 437,700 email accounts with
addresses ending with “.vn” (Vietnam) have recently been breached, with
personal information, even passwords exposed through foreign social networks
and online services.
Of the exposed email accounts, 930 have addresses ending with “gov.vn”
(governmental agencies of Vietnam), according to the Vietnam Computer
Emergency Response Team (VNCERT) under the Vietnamese Ministry of Information
and Communications.
Many breached email accounts belong to Vietnam’s major economic groups and
important infrastructure developers, VNCERT said, noting that a lot of staff
of state agencies and corporations use their organizations’ email accounts to
register for their personal accounts of foreign social networks and online
services.
VNCERT said Vietnam has faced many cyber security issues, like low public
awarness about online security with more and more websites being defaced, and
malware spreading among computers.
BSS/Xinhua/MR/ 1012 HRS