On December 23, 2016, Singapore's Personal Data Protection Commission ("PDPC") found that a wine company and its website developer failed to make reasonable security arrangements to prevent the unauthorized access of customers' personal data. The wine company was ordered to conduct a security audit and patch website vulnerabilities. The Commission imposed a financial penalty of S$5,000 on the wine company and a financial penalty of S$3,000 on the site developer for violating the Personal Data Protection Act of 2012.
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