( July 22, 2025, 05:03 GMT | Official Statement) — MLex Summary: Hongkong Post, the city’s government-run postal service, reported a cybersecurity incident involving unauthorized robotic access to customer address books on its electronic shipping platform. According to a government statement, the agency immediately blocked the intrusion and notified police, the privacy regulator, the Digital Policy Office, and the Security Bureau. The agency is still working to determine the scope of the incident, including the number of affected accounts and whether personal data such as names, addresses and phone numbers of senders and recipients was compromised, the statement said.
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