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Singapore HIV Registry Data Leaked Online in Health Breach (bbc.com)

Posted by msmash on from the privacy-woes dept.

Confidential data about more than 14,000 people diagnosed with HIV, including foreign visitors, has been stolen in Singapore and leaked online. From a report: Authorities revealed details about the 2016 health data breach on Monday. They believe an HIV-positive American whose partner was a senior Singaporean doctor is behind the leak. The hack comes just months after the records of 1.5m Singaporeans, including Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, were stolen last year. Confidential information including names, addresses, HIV status and other medical information is reportedly included in the latest breach. Officials say the details of 5,400 Singaporeans and 8,800 foreigners dating up to January 2013 have been compromised.

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  1. Computerized Medical Records by ebonum · · Score: 0, Troll

    Data wants to be free. Everyone should assume that digital medical records have a non-zero chance of getting out. If you don't want your medical records online, don't agree to digital medical records.

  2. Diseased Lists SHOULD be Public! by zidium · · Score: -1, Troll

    Communicable diseases, especially incurable, lifelong and fatal ones (HIV) should be public knowledge!

    If we don't have the temerity as a species/civilization to quarantine such individuals, at least let the public stay away from them on their own accord!

    Not stopping HIV in its tracks in the 1980s was the genesis of the entire SJW movement.

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  3. Re:This data SHOULD be public. by zidium · · Score: -1, Troll

    They should have done that in the 1980s. HIV would be dead now. but only if they forced a tattoo as well.

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