No user data leak, says Malaysia's COVID-19 tracing app developer following complaints on spam SMS

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There were also complaints of spam emails from an account appeared to belong to MySejahtera.

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KUALA LUMPUR: The developer of MySejahtera, Malaysia's COVID-19 tracing app, said the unsolicited one-time password sent to users was due to"malicious scripts", while assuring that there was no user data leak.

“Since then these API end points are blocked and a fix to enhance security will be moved tonight,” it said. Some Malaysians took to Twitter to highlight that they had received the OTP messages. They were worried that others had tried to log into their MySejahtera account and that if they were victims of a database breach or identity theft.

NSC said last year that MySejahtera was developed by a Malaysian firm, KPISoft Sdn Bhd, according to Malay Mail.

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