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Assalamualaikum dan salam sejahtera,

Merujuk kepada  hantaran ini, PTPTN telah meneliti kandungan hantaran tersebut dan didapati bahawa ia melanggar Akta Komunikasi dan Multimedia 1998, Akta Jenayah Komputer 1997, dan Akta Perlindungan Data Peribadi 2010.
— PTPTN (@PTPTNOfficial) January 29, 2024

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Bila rakyat beritahu kita satu maklumat yang boleh membahayakan kita
1) Ucap terima kasih atas keperihatinan mereka
2) Periksa jika benar apa yang mereka kata
3) Jangan sesekali membalas dengan mengugut mereka
4) Jangan tambah kebencian rakyat terhadap kerajaan dengan sikap… https://t.co/8qYEO0ib37
— Dato' Lokman Adam 🇲🇾 (@LokmanAdam) January 29, 2024

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Mohon pencerahan kenapa ciapan tu langgar undang2.

May I know why your website keeps showing time out & signed me off forcefully? Also I dun understand why I need to install your app so that I can check my SSPN statements balance online. Why can't we just use our computer? pic.twitter.com/xOuA0J64qB
— Samantha Chong 🇲🇾🇵🇸 (@Samantha__chong) January 29, 2024

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Salam @PTPTNOfficial,

Anda sepatutnya berterima kasih ada rakyat buat kerja secara percuma untuk menunjukkan kelompongan dalam website kalian.

Bukannya tweet berunsur ugutan seperti ini. Perbaiki sekuriti website kalian, mentang2 PDPA not applied to you.

Shame on you. https://t.co/dF5y0crAZP
— FIR (@fdajesfry) January 29, 2024

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Member dah bg free alert about the la k of security in your website and your exposure to data breaches and leaks. Instead of acknowledging your faults, you want to shoot the whistleblower. 

Bodoh sombong. Ni quality organization yang jaga millions of taxpayer money? https://t.co/Gej4cW9Dem
— Woody. free 🇵🇸🤲🏽 (@woody2shoez) January 29, 2024

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PTPTN draws online ire for negating X user's exposé of potential web security issues | Scoop
PTPTN has garnered brickbats from netizens after it invalidated an X user's concern over the agency’s website security, and instructed the user to remove the post, citing CCA and PDPA. – Alif Omar/Scoop pic, January 29, 2024
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PTPTN draws online ire for negating X user’s exposĂ© of potential web security issues

Agency cites CCA, PDPA against netizen for posting report detailing threat level of its corporate webpage, triggering criticism

Scoop Reporters
Updated
10:44 PM MYT

 

KUALA LUMPUR – The National Higher Education Fund (PTPTN) has received online brickbats after it invalidated an X user’s concern over the agency’s website security.  

Last night, the user who uses the handle @HilmiAdi posted a screenshot listing supposed cyber vulnerabilities and a report detailing the threat level of “passive web application vulnerabilities” on PTPTN’s website, which appears to be a corporate webpage.  

@HilmiAdi’s X post.

Responding to the now-deleted post, PTPTN’s official X account said that its inspection of the posting found that the user had violated the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998, the Computer Crimes Act (CCA) 1997 and the Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) 2010.  

“To avoid any possible misunderstanding or other implications due to this post, we respectfully request that the post be removed from your social media platforms immediately or before 10pm on January 29,” it added.  

PTPTN’s response to the concerned citizen has drawn the ire of other X users, who lambasted the agency for its “threats” against the original account owner. 

Among those who criticised the agency was Umno communications director Datuk Lokman Noor Adam, who also cautioned PTPTN against stoking the people’s displeasure with government entities.  

“When the rakyat informs us of details that could potentially harm us, we should thank them, check the veracity of their claims and never respond by threatening them.  

“Do not increase the people’s hatred towards the government with this kind of arrogant attitude,” he said.  

Samantha Chong, a former press secretary with the Prime Minister’s Department, also pressed PTPTN to disclose how the posting violated any law while raising her grouses with its website.  

Expressing similar sentiments, user @fdajesfry said that PTPTN should be thankful that there are citizens who volunteered to improve its website security while another user, @woody2shoez, admonished the agency for supposedly “shooting the whistleblower.”  

“Is this the quality of an organisation that looks over millions of ringgit of taxpayers’ money?” the latter asked.  

User @DanisyEisyraf also questioned PTPTN’s assertion of the original post violating the CCA, saying: “It’s a simple vulnerability scanner. Anyone can do it and it’s a critical step for VA (vulnerability assessment). It’s not even a pen test (penetration test).  

“It’s not (a) modification (and) it’s not unauthorised access, so how is it chargeable under the CCA?” he asked. – January 29, 2024 

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