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Singapore’s health database hacked, 1.5mn personal data stolen

Adesola Afolabi

Adesola Afolabi is  Businessamlive Reporter.
You can contact her on adesola.afolabi@businessamlive.com with stories and commentary.

July 20, 2018760 views0 comments

Singaporean government said on Friday, that hackers have stolen the personal data belonging to about 1.5 million people, about a quarter of the population, including those of Prime Minister Hsien Loong, according to Reuters.

The government called the attack “the most serious breach of personal data” that the country has experienced, comes as the highly wired and digitalized state has made cyber security a top priority for the ASEAN bloc and for itself.

“Investigations by the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA) and the Integrated Health Information System (IHiS) confirmed that this was a deliberate, targeted and well-planned cyberattack,” a government statement said.

“It was not the work of casual hackers or criminal gangs,” the joint statement by the Health Ministry and the Ministry of Communications and Information said.

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About 1.5 million patients who visited clinics between May 2015 and July 4 this year have had their non-medical personal particulars illegally accessed and copied, the statement said.

“The attackers specifically and repeatedly targeted Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s personal particulars and information on his outpatient dispensed medicines,” it said.

The Ministry of Communications said in a separate statement that a Committee of Inquiry will be established and immediate action will be taken to strengthen government systems against cyber attacks, .

It did not provide details about what entity or individuals may have been behind the attack.

Lee, in a Facebook post following the announcement, said the breach of his personal medical data was not incidental and he did not know what information the attackers were hoping to find.

“My medication data is not something I would ordinarily tell people about, but there is nothing alarming in it,” he said.

A similar cyber attack last year targeted the defence ministry but only got basic information on military conscripts.

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