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In Singapore, personal information obtained illegally from more than 14,200 people living with HIV was published online. Data includes name, identification number, phone number, address, HIV test results and other confidential medical information from 5,400 HIV-positive citizens diagnosed before January 2013 and from 8,800 foreigners diagnosed with HIV before December 2011.
The Ministry of Health said the information would be illegally owned by Mikhy Farrera Brochez, an American citizen living with HIV and living in Singapore on a work visa between January 2008 and June 2016. Broche had been jailed in June. 2016 and sentenced to 28 months in prison in March 2017 for fraud and drug offenses. In particular, he was found guilty of manipulating his HIV test to keep his visa. In fact, in Singapore, HIV-positive foreigners can not receive work visas or permanent residence permits. Mikhy Farrera Broche's partner, Ler Teck Siang, a former health ministry official from 2012 to 2013, had provided him with false blood tests to pbad the test and was in turn sentenced to two years in prison. The ministry believes that Brochez had access to the confidential register of people living with HIV through Siang.
The ministry said: "We apologize for the anxiety and suffering caused by this incident, our priority is the well-being of those concerned, and as of January 26, we are gradually contacting those involved to warn and badist them. . "
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