Singapore | DrewTech Chapter 12: Beset on all sides – liability for data breaches

As cyberattacks become more prevalent, organisations have become alive to the reality of potential penalties for a data breach affecting personal data. However, this is not the end of the matter for an organization hit by a data breach. It is also possible for an organization to face civil claims from affected individuals as well as business counterparties. This article examines what courts have said in response to the issue of civil claims arising out of data breaches, and discusses the implications that must be considered by any organization that controls data.

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If you missed any of the chapters in our DrewTech series, you can read them below: 

1. Chapter 1: The Importance of an Exit Strategy in Tech Contracts
2. Chapter 2: Employees, technology and a legal hangover - bring your own problems?
3. Chapter 3: I host, you post, I get sued?
4. Chapter 4: Diabolus ex machina - Artificial (un)Intelligence and liability
5. Chapter 5: Bringing Hygiene Online - The MAS Notice on Cyber Hygiene
6. Chapter 6: Signing without signing – contactless contracts
7. Chapter 7: My Kingdom for a Horse – When your Systems are Held to Ransom
8. Chapter 8: New risks in new skins - Updates to the Guidelines on Risk Management Practices – Technology Risk
9. Chapter 9: Of blockchains and stumbling blocks
10. Chapter 10: Service by airdrop - no parachutes required
11. Chapter 11: Large language models and larger legal minefields