KUALA LUMPUR, March 11 -- The government has managed to prevent over two million attempts to hack the Pangkalan Data Utama (Padu) or Central Database Hub, in each week, Economy Minister Rafizi Ramli said.

He said these attempted attacks happened since Padu was launched on January 2.

"Padu is still safe, as a result of the government's fast action taken by the team who built Padu. When pro-rated, there are between 2 to 2.3 million attempted attacks each week," Rafizi told the Parliament in his winding up of the debate on the King's speech here.

"The first type of attack came in the form of Anti-Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), whereby there were 28 attempts from January 2 to January 3 - in the first two days of the launch.

"Since ...