Hackers Steal Millions of Data on Singaporean Residents, Prime Minister Meets Victims

Liputan6.com, Singapore – Hackers attacked Singapore's largest health center, SingHealth, and stole personal data belonging to 1.5 million patients.

Data includes an outpatient prescription of 160,000 patient data Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and several Singapore ministers

SingHealth is Singapore's largest health facility with four hospitals, five national specialty centers and eight polyclinics .

The 1.5 million patient data are from individuals who visit SingHealth's outpatient clinics and specialty clinics from May 1, 2015 to July 4, 2018.

With respect to Lee's data , the government announced on Friday (20/7/2018) that the information is targeted in a specification and repeatedly.

Their non-medical personal data is also illegally accessed and copied, including name, IC number, address, gender, race and date of birth

There are no vandalized patient's medical record, including diagnosis, test results and medical records. To date, no other similar offense has been committed in any other public health information technology system

. Singapore Health Minister Gan Kim Yong and Minister of Communications and Information Technology S. Iswaran describe attacks This is the most serious and unprecedented violation of personal data in the world. country. Gan apologized to all the victims.

Quoted by Straits Times on Saturday (21/7/2018), David Koh, chief executive of the Singapore Cyber ​​Security Agency, said that he "s only one of the few. was acting a cyber attack. intentional, well targeted and well planned. "It's not a gangster job or criminal," he said.

As a result of the attack, all Smart Nation Singapore plans, including mandatory contributions to the National Electronic Medical Record (NEHR) were suspended. The NEHR project aims to enable local hospitals to share medical data and patient care.