Collaborate Disseminate
Singapore’s Ministry of Health said the HIV status of 14,200 people, plus confidential data of 2,400 of their contacts, is in the possession of somebody who’s not authorized to have it and who’s published it online. Continue reading 14k HIV+ records leaked, Singapore says sorry
January is off to a running start on the data breach front, while Experian is predicting new attack frontiers ahead. Continue reading Data Breach Roundup: U.S. Healthcare, Cryptopia, SingHealth and Experian
An investigation into the July data breach incident at Singapore’s largest healthcare provider has revealed that local administrators made several critical mistakes that led to the breach, including the use of weak passwords and unpatched softwar… Continue reading Poor ‘p@ssword’ hygiene and unpatched systems led to Singapore’s biggest ever cybersecurity breach
The government of Singapore says attackers responsible for a recent breach, largely being called the country’s worst in history, are likely inked to a state-backed advanced persistent threat group. S. Iswaran, Singapore’s minister of communications and information, said in a statement to the country’s parliament Monday that a government analysis of the attack shows that it is the work of known state-linked threat actors. Iswaran stopped short of naming the APT group in question, citing “national security reasons.” “The APT group that attacked SingHealth was persistent in its efforts to penetrate and anchor itself in the network, bypass the security measures, and illegally access and exfiltrate data,” Iswaran said in a statement. According to the AFP news agency, third-party security researchers had already indicated that the attack was linked to state-backed hackers. Iswaran’s remarks shed more light on the perceived sophistication behind the attack, albeit without attribution. Singapore initially announced the attack […]
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Singapore’s largest healthcare group, SingHealth, has suffered a massive data breach that allowed hackers to snatch personal information on 1.5 million patients who visited SingHealth clinics between May 2015 and July 2018.
SingHealth is the largest h… Continue reading Singapore’s Largest Healthcare Group Hacked, 1.5 Million Patient Records Stolen