SINGAPORE, July 3 -- Personal data belonging to about 70,000 individuals has been compromised in a cybersecurity incident involving the Singapore Land Authority (SLA) and a cloud environment managed by IBM.

SLA said the breach stemmed from unauthorised access to a dataset created for vendor development and systems integration testing, CNA reported.

IBM oversees the testing environment for the Singapore Titles Automated Registration System (STARS) and eLodgment System (ELS), which are used to submit property transfer and caveat documents.

Preliminary checks showed the dataset, first created in 1998 and updated periodically, was intended to contain only mock and anonymised records. It was later discovered to include real information such...