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

Posted by msmash on from the security-woes dept.

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.

10 of 23 comments (clear)

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

    ...from relatively short people?

    1. 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.

    2. 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.

    3. 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.

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

      Editor? What is that?

      captcha: decide

  2. 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.

  3. 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.
  4. 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.

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

    has been sentenced to be caned in public.