Singapore's Health Institutions Hit By Unprecedented Data Breach

[Lucian Armasu]

Alleged state-sponsored attackers were able to steal the personal information of 1.5 million patients in Singapore from the SingHealth medical group.

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[hok]

Serves them right, the SG government was quite arrogant a few years ago when people brought this up about security when they had plans for the FULL Digital integration of peoples health records...stupidity is the greatest educator.

 

[stdragon]

Those workstations should never had internet access to begin with. If it's needed, then a secondary computer should be used that's air-gapped from the rest of the network with only access to the database. That way, a malware infected machine has zero chance to access the records, let alone upload them over the internet.

IT director and CIO need to be fired