Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong revealed in a Facebook post that SingHealth, the city-state’s largest group of healthcare institutions, had experienced a major cyber-attack, in which 1.5 million patients had their personal particulars stolen.
He said 160,000 of the 1.5 million patients also had their outpatient medication data compromised. “I am personally affected, and not just incidentally. The attackers targeted my own medication data, specifically and repeatedly,” he added.
Lee said the hackers would have been disappointed if they hoped to find some dark state secret or something to embarrass him, because his medication data was not something he would ordinarily tell people about, but “there is nothing alarming in it.”
The prime minister said the security and confidentiality of patient information was a top priority, and he had ordered the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore and the Smart…
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