Overview
- Over the weekend the Flexi Parking platform was breached and parking payments were paralysed for services used by 64 local councils across Selangor and other states.
- Selangor officials ordered affected councils not to issue parking summonses while the Selangor Intelligent Parking system remains offline to protect user data.
- Operator Suasa Efektif apologised and said technical teams are restoring apps and performing thorough system checks, although visible app interfaces do not yet confirm working payment functions.
- Gotchaa Lab published a report saying attackers exploited two old, preventable software bugs to access the platform, but authorities have not yet confirmed the final root cause or the full scope of any data breach.
- The outage affected hundreds of thousands of motorists and highlights risks from centralising digital public services and the need for timely patching and stronger safeguards for legacy software.