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Personal Info of 1.5m SingHealth Patients, Including PM Lee, Stolen in Singapore's Worst Cyber Attack (straitstimes.com)

In Singapore's worst cyber attack, hackers have stolen the personal particulars of 1.5 million patients. Of these, 160,000 people, including Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and a few ministers, had their outpatient prescriptions stolen as well. From a report: The hackers infiltrated the computers of SingHealth, Singapore's largest group of healthcare institutions with four hospitals, five national speciality centres and eight polyclinics. Two other polyclinics used to be under SingHealth. At a multi-ministry press conference on Friday, the authorities said PM Lee's information was "specifically and repeatedly targeted." The 1.5 million patients had visited SingHealth's specialist outpatient clinics and polyclinics from May 1, 2015, to July 4, 2018. Their non-medical personal data that was illegally accessed and copied included their names, IC numbers, addresses, gender, race and dates of birth.

23 comments

  1. Why did they only steal... by DrTJ · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...from relatively short people?

    1. Re: Why did they only steal... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Probably to gets stats on average dilz size

    2. Re:Why did they only steal... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      This is a stupid comment.

    3. Re:Why did they only steal... by DrTJ · · Score: 2, Informative

      The title said stealing from "1.5m people", not "1.5M people". So, 1.5m people are relatively short.

    4. Re:Why did they only steal... by DrTJ · · Score: 1

      Troll??
      Oh, come on! I was making a joke about the slashdot editors not being able to distinguish between the notion of 1.5m (1.5 meters) and 1.5M (1.5 millions).

      If this was voted down because there was an interpretation where I in a demeaning manner referred to Singapore people as being short, the average slashdot reader has become less humorous, less intelligent and/or more politically correct than I thought possible.

      Wow.

    5. Re:Why did they only steal... by 110010001000 · · Score: 1

      The "m" means "million", not "meter" in this case. It is a typo on the editors part.

    6. Re:Why did they only steal... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Editor? What is that?

      captcha: decide

    7. Re: Why did they only steal... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Mod parent down as off topic and to cause more meltdowns

    8. Re: Why did they only steal... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Your a Nazi and Hitler.

    9. Re:Why did they only steal... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      whoosh...

  2. they have some Pre-existing Conditions there syste by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    they have some Pre-existing Conditions in there system

  3. Crazy theory, not your regular hackers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    who needs this stuff? Who cares about medical details? The answer is Big Pharma, and no Big Pharma is bigger than American Big Pharma, and with globalization comes the entering of these medical corporations of gigantic size in the global market, where this data is extremely valuable.

    These hacks happen regularly, and are not very easy to pull off. My theory is that all this data in the end benefits American Big Pharma and insurance companies, and is most likely gathered by American intelligence services, typically NSA.

    American intelligence agencies collect the data and give it to American corporations, because data is money and power, and the agenda is that this money and power comes in the hands of American coroporations, not foreign corporations.

    1. Re:Crazy theory, not your regular hackers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Who cares about any of this anyway? Privacy is dead and everyone else collects your data too. If it worries you, throw away your computer, your phone and never go on the internet again.

      And yes, that was sarcastically and derisively mocking the short-sighted children who always say such thing when privacy concerns are raised by their intellectual superiors.

  4. Re:they have some Pre-existing Conditions there sy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Yes, shortness.

  5. Mr. Wray by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    And this Chris, is why you don't have encryption backdoors. Ain't you glad YOUR data is encrypted?

  6. Obviously was Putin by huckamania · · Score: 1

    Now that they have Kompromat on the Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, he is their puppet. Expect the PM to announce sanctions on Russia, bomb a Russian airfield in Syria and to send weapons to the Ukraine, as good Russian puppets always do.

    Let's face it, there are no other hackers in the world outside of Russia.

  7. Australia Health records going live soon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Australia is about to put 20 million records online. What could go wrong?
    Includes prescriptions and codes for the type of visits.

    Politicians for STD vistis and penicillin shots (and when)
    Very young girls on the pill 12 and up
    Who has a mental health or depression conditions

  8. Blockade the Island by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Don't let no one off until they guilty parties surrender.

  9. The worst? by CaptainDork · · Score: 1

    It's also, "The best."

    #perspective

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    It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
  10. Someone is in trouble by The+Snazster · · Score: 1

    With enough incentive, Singapore has the monetary, technological, and cognitive resources to get to the bottom of this . . . . and a criminal justice system that is anything but forgiving.

    1. Re:Someone is in trouble by ctilsie242 · · Score: 1

      As far as I know, Singapore also doesn't follow the "security has no ROI" mantra that a lot of companies have, so someone might actually feel heat for this.

  11. The computer involved in the data breach by Snufu · · Score: 1

    has been sentenced to be caned in public.

  12. short people got no reason to live by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Short people got no reason
    Short people got no reason
    Short people got no reason
    To live

    They got little hands
    And little eyes
    And they walk around
    Tellin' great big lies
    They got little noses
    And tiny little teeth
    They wear platform shoes
    On their nasty little feet

    Well, I don't want no short people
    Don't want no short people
    Don't want no short people
    'Round here

    Short people are just the same
    As you and I
    (A fool such as Trump)
    All men are brothers
    Until the day they die
    (It's a wonderful world)

    Short people got nobody
    Short people got nobody
    Short people got nobody
    To love

    They got little baby legs
    And they stand so low
    You got to pick 'em up
    Just to say hello
    They got little cars
    That got beep, beep, beep
    They got little voices
    Goin' peep, peep, peep
    They got grubby little fingers
    And dirty little minds
    They're gonna get you every time

    Well, I don't want no short people
    Don't want no short people
    Don't want no short people
    'Round here

    the oddball who wrote that also wrote "Mama Told Me Not To Come"