Economy Minister Rafizi Ramli today assured that the Central Database Hub (Padu) remains secure despite facing over two million hacking attempts every week.
He said that these attacks occur in various forms, including Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) and breach attempts on the firewall since the system was launched on January 2.
The Minister said the government has also decided to implement geo-fencing where access to the app will only be within Malaysia.
At the moment a total of 4,292,912 individuals aged 18 and above, representing 19.5 percent of the total population of Malaysia, have registered and updated their information in Padu as of yesterday (March 10).
“If we include the number of registrations including those under 18 years old, it would be 5,946,708 people, which is 19.8 percent of the total population of the country,” he said.
Rafizi added that Padu will be strengthened with the ability to update data in real-time to enable quick and automatic data sharing between departments and agencies.
