KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Consultative Council of Islamic Organisation (Mapim) has urged the authorities to take serious action over the alleged data breach involving personal details of 800,000 voters from the MySPR database.
Council president Mohd Azmi Abdul Hamid said the authorities should also not keep quiet on the incident.
"The authorities should not wait for police reports to investigate based on the Personal Data Protection Act (APDP) 2010 (Act 709)," he said.
Azmi said the Election Commission (EC) must also explain whether action has been taken to deal with the issue.
"The EC should not see this breach as a minor issue when the 15th General Election (GE15) is just a few days away.
"The commission needs to take steps to identify the responsible party responsible for selling data from its database and ensure the perpetrator will be charged for the crime.
"It is dangerous that data involving voters' information is being sold online."
Earlier today, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob called on the EC to investigate and explain the alleged personal data leak.
Yesterday, the lowyat.net website revealed it had spotted the sale of data involving voters. The website also found a sample of alleged personal details, such as full names, identification numbers, email addresses, birth dates, and home addresses being made public.
The data sample made public also included photos, the voting centre of voters, as well as other EC information.
This evening, Home Minister, Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainuddin said his ministry had yet to receive any report on the date leak.
"So far no police report has been made and if there is, we will investigate this issue," he said after delivering a ceremah as part of the 'Jelajah Perikatan Nasional' program in Guar Sanji, Perlis, here today.