Singapore Health Database hit by a massive cyber attack, 1.5m clients affected

[ItsMitch]

S: Reuters | Singapore Health

 

Singapore PM has confirmed to the press it's health service has suffered a massive cyber attack, the likes it has never seen before affecting over 1.5 million users including the PM himself. The government have strong suspicions that this was a state sponsored attack due to the way it was administered and the way the attack was planned and executed. 

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

Singapore is this year’s chair of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) group.

 

“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.

Users that have visited clinics from the 1st of May 2015 to July the 4th have been affected. No record was changed nor destroyed, neither was diagnosis, test results or doctors notes. So what was stolen? Names, personal addresses, contact numbers and medicine dispenses in some rare cases. 

 

Singapore officials will be reaching out to each patient affected by the breach. Their statement can be found in the sources. 

[Sir Asvald]

I think their database needs a check up.. it's has a virus...

[ItsMitch]

4 minutes ago, Abdul201588 said:

I think their database needs a check up.. it's has a virus...

.......... God damnit

[Hiitchy]

8 minutes ago, Abdul201588 said:

I think their database needs a check up.. it's has a virus...

It's okay, we'll just give it a few antibiotics and it should be up and running again.

[ItsMitch]

2 minutes ago, VegetableStu said:

hahey why am I hearing of this first on LTTf ._.

LTT your first place for local news, didn't you know? 

[captain_to_fire]

1 hour ago, SC2Mitch said:

confirmed that this was a deliberate, targeted and well-planned cyberattack,” a government statement said.

basically an advanced persistent threat...too bad that Singapore's health database got breached considering they have one of the best healthcare systems in the world (combination of state funded single payer healthcare and private sector medicine).

[GoldenLag]

Its a sad day for the shorter part of the population. All those clients under 1.5 meter are affected

[Sir Asvald]

2 hours ago, SC2Mitch said:

.......... God damnit

Hahaha

[leadeater]

34 minutes ago, GoldenLag said:

Its a sad day for the shorter part of the population. All those clients under 1.5 meter are affected

[comicsansms]

And this is why I opted out of Australia's My Health Record...
https://optout.myhealthrecord.gov.au/pext/optoutextweb/

 

I recommend all Australian's do the same. From the 15th of October on-wards, it's opt-out, instead of opt-in like it used to be.

[mynameisjuan]

Its not too much of a concern. Everything exposed is public info anyway. Im just glad medical info wasnt stolen 

[mynameisjuan]

7 minutes ago, VegetableStu said:

my IC is not public info

my DoB is not public info (unless some IRL manual data hoarder goes against their word)

the relation of my personal details to an identity is not public info

 

._.

 

^{(poor Batman though.)}

 

EDIT: you know, with that data you could actually commit automated identity impersonation (in terms of starting to do shady stuff with legit info)

I dont think you realize how much info is actually public.