#Showbiz: Michelle Yeoh is McAfee’s Most Dangerous Celebrity in 2019 | New Straits Times
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia-born international film star Tan Sri Michelle Yeoh lands top spot in McAfee’s list of most dangerous celebrities to search for online.
Trailing Yeoh at No. 2 is rapper and musician Nicki Minaj, followed by singers Billie Eilish (No. 3) and U2 (No. 4), actress and Crazy Rich Asians co-star Gemma Chan (No. 5), actress Scarlett Johansson (No. 6), and a crop of musical acts including Zhao Wei (No. 7), Maroon 5 (No. 8), Leon Lai (No. 9), and A-mei (No. 10).
In a press statement, the computer security software company McAfee, has, for the past 13 years, conducted research on which famous individuals generated the riskiest results that could potentially expose their fans to malicious websites and viruses.
McAfee’s Head of Southeast Asia Consumer Business Shashwat Khandelwal said that consumers were faced with endless options to feed their obsession with celebrities, conducting potentially dangerous searches across the Internet to find the latest gossip without fear of consequence such as malicious websites that may install malware or steal personal information and passwords.
“Consumers may not be fully aware that the searches they conduct pose risk, nor may they understand the detrimental effects that can occur when personal information is compromised in exchange for access to their favourite celebrities, movies, TV shows or music,” he said.
Yeoh’s storied career spans as far back as the 1980s, when she began appearing in Hong Kong movies, before appearing in notable global hits like Tomorrow Never Dies, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Memoirs Of A Geisha.
The 57-year-old artiste continued to test Hollywood’s boundaries by starring in 2018’s Crazy Rich Asians, the first studio film in 25 years with an all-Asian cast, which also starred another Malaysian actor, Henry Golding.
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