Immigration say their systems are secure - deny any of 106 million tourists' data breach was theirs

[webfact]

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Thansettakij reported that Thailand's immigration bureau had flatly denied that any tourist's data was compromised in a recently reported case.

 

Comparitech in the UK said that 106 million visitors to Thailand had had their data compromised over the last ten years.

 

Things like names and surnames, dates of birth and passport numbers were involved.

 

The IB said that their systems were completely secure and that they work with the DES ministry to ensure that.

 

The IB added that their Thai brothers and sisters and foreign visitors could be completely confident in them. 

 

They included a handy phone number to call - 1178 - if any foreigners are misbehaving and threatening Thailand's security.  

 

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[Pravda]

1 minute ago, webfact said:

They included a handy phone number to call - 1178 - if any foreigners are misbehaving and threatening Thailand's security. 

 

What about domestic hackers? Is the number 1234 just like your password?

[Orinoco]

We understand and know your all on the ball 24/7

 

 

 

 

[Rampant Rabbit]

6 minutes ago, webfact said:

They included a handy phone number to call - 1178 - if any foreigners are misbehaving and threatening Thailand's security.  

good  to   know  ill  keep  it  on speed dial, where do I report the vast  majority Thais?

[ThailandRyan]

Wait what happened to the Immigrations appointment system...wasn't that hacked or was it just left unlocked...hmmm. it is still not up to working yet it's been several months. Tells me they have some issues in house.

[bobandyson]

6 minutes ago, webfact said:

The IB added that their Thai brothers and sisters and foreign visitors could be completely confident in them. 

Like the confidence everyone has for the police, government, justice system, road safety, etc.,etc.,. . . . 

[ezzra]

Deny, deny, and deny some more, that's about the only thing they CAN do now, but they know the truth...

[bobandyson]

Just now, ezzra said:

Deny, deny, and deny some more, that's about the only thing they CAN do now, but they know the truth...

They can't handle the truth!!!!!!! 

????

[Scrotobike]

Another secure system in the land of "my nephew can code it" hubs.

Anyone seen a decent TIT government system?

[Orinoco]

18 minutes ago, Pravda said:

 

What about domestic hackers? Is the number 1234 just like your password?

Nah, way to easy  that one.

Got to be  hard like,  admin admin

[MRToMRT]

They probably got a good offer to let someone in. Everything is potentially for sale at a price it would seem from all the other RTP and judicial related incidents.

[JonnyF]

"Come on holiday to Thailand, we're not really vaccinated and we'll arrest you for having a beer in a restaurant but don't worry, you'll get loads of phone calls offering some fantastic deals after we've leaked/sold all your personal data."

[Gottfrid]

Please, how would it be to concentrate on the problem at hand, instead of hearing different authorities screaming it wasn´t me!

Reminds me about a teacher asking who in the class put garlic capsules under the stool? Of course the one who did it was the first one to create the chorus line of "It wasn´t me!".

[HeijoshinCool]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

The IB added that their Thai brothers and sisters ... could be completely confident in them. 

 

They included a handy phone number to call if any foreigners are misbehaving and threatening Thailand's security.

.

 

Is there a university in Thailand where Thais can graduate with a BA degree.....

 

Bachelor of A$$holes?

[ThailandRyan]

1 minute ago, HeijoshinCool said:

.

 

Is there a university in Thailand where Thais can graduate with a BA degree.....

 

Bachelor of A$$holes?

No it's just a BBS Bachelor of BullS

[khunPer]

So the Thai Immigration deny that the 106 million-names data came from them, which makes me wonder who then have registered these data of persons entering the kingdom...????

[Virt]

2 hours ago, Orinoco said:

Nah, way to easy  that one.

Got to be  hard like,  admin admin

Their systems only allow 4 digits.....

[BangkokReady]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

They included a handy phone number to call - 1178 - if any foreigners are misbehaving and threatening Thailand's security.  

So deny it happened, then suggest that even if it did, it would be the fault of evil foreigners because Thai people would never do such a thing?  Classy.

[worgeordie]

Safe as houses ...  ???? I used to get pieces of paper from immigration for next 90 day report,

where they had recycled peoples photo copies ,with photo ,full details on the other side.

regards worgeordie

 

[Bluespunk]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

The IB added that their Thai brothers and sisters and foreign visitors could be completely confident in them. 

I’m completely confident that they are being less than honest about this data breach.

 

[xylophone]

1 minute ago, worgeordie said:

Safe as houses ...  ???? I used to get pieces of paper from immigration for next 90 day report,

where they had recycled peoples photo copies ,with photo ,full details on the other side.

regards worgeordie

 

Yes, a few years ago I commented on that very fact to a friend of mine when we were getting our retirement extensions, and on one of them I had the details of a German national, which astounded me!

 

It seems as if they have stopped this practice now, and not before time.
 

[klauskunkel]

Quote

Immigration say their systems are secure

"We asked our BMW Smart Cars about our system and they replied with a Thumbs Up," said an unnamed source.

Edited September 24, 2021 by klauskunkel

[expat_4_life]

They seem to think we've forgotten the data breach reported a few

months ago by Richard Barrow and written about here: (secure indeed)

https://thethaiger.com/news/national/another-data-breach-info-leaked-on-bangkok-immigration-website

Edited September 24, 2021 by expat_4_life

[chilly07]

4 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

Wait what happened to the Immigrations appointment system...wasn't that hacked or was it just left unlocked...hmmm. it is still not up to working yet it's been several months. Tells me they have some issues in house.

QueQ works well- don't know if its been hacked?

[daveAustin]

Cute how they deflect at the end with the ‘handy’ number to report foreigners. I see the kids haven’t quite grown up yet. 

[hotchilli]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

The IB said that their systems were completely secure and that they work with the DES ministry to ensure that.

I wonder if someone could hack the 90 reporting site and get it to work?

[MrJ2U]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

they work with the DES ministry to ensure that.

Thats reassuring.

 

DES also works on the health apps for immunization that were breached recently.

 

An audit is in order.

Somebody keeps dropping the ball.

[ukrules]

Well they've just stolen the hackers 'bragging rights' here by accusing them of lying.

 

I've seen what happens in the past when this situation presents itself - tens of GB of data usually ends up being published.

 

[Antifreeze]

3 hours ago, khunPer said:

So the Thai Immigration deny that the 106 million-names data came from them, which makes me wonder who then have registered these data of persons entering the kingdom...????

Not Immigration. They use paper forms. 

[Sydebolle]

Who else has such a big database?