KUALA LUMPUR, March 27 -- With nearly 400,000 new registrations at the Central Database Hub (Padu) yesterday, Economy Minister Rafizi Ramli predicted a late rush will push the total past 10 million by the deadline to sign up at the end of the month.

He said this meant Malaysians were more informed about cybersecurity matters, as his disclosure of over two million hacking attempts of the database did not deter them.

"We're seeing registrations for Padu increasing daily and I feel part of it is because we have this culture of doing things 'last minute'. Yesterday was 400,000. Previously throughout the month of February despite the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) putting out booths and so on, it was only around 60,000 daily regist...