{"id":44225,"date":"2018-07-21T03:00:08","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T07:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=44225"},"modified":"2018-07-20T16:07:31","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T20:07:31","slug":"singapore-suffers-data-breach-from-singhealth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/07\/21\/singapore-suffers-data-breach-from-singhealth\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore suffers data breach from SingHealth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/personal-info-of-15m-singhealth-patients-including-pm-lee-stolen-in-singapores-most\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Straits Times<\/em><\/a>, Irene Tham reports on the data loss:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In Singapore\u2019s worst cyber attack, hackers have stolen the personal particulars of 1.5 million patients. Of these, 160,000 people, including Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and a few ministers, had their outpatient prescriptions stolen as well.<\/p>\n<p>The hackers infiltrated the computers of SingHealth, Singapore&#8217;s largest group of healthcare institutions with four hospitals, five national speciality centres and eight polyclinics. Two other polyclinics used to be under SingHealth.<\/p>\n<p>At a multi-ministry press conference on Friday (July 20), the authorities said PM Lee&#8217;s information was &#8220;specifically and repeatedly targeted&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The 1.5 million patients had visited SingHealth&#8217;s specialist outpatient clinics and polyclinics from May 1, 2015, to July 4, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Their non-medical personal data that was illegally accessed and copied included their names, IC numbers, addresses, gender, race and dates of birth.<\/p>\n<p>No record was tampered with and no other patient records such as diagnosis, test results and doctors&#8217; notes were breached. There was no evidence of a similar breach in the other public healthcare IT systems.<\/p>\n<p>Health Minister Gan Kim Yong and Minister for Communications and Information S. Iswaran both described the leak as the most serious, unprecedented breach of personal data in Singapore.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Straits Times, Irene Tham reports on the data loss: In Singapore\u2019s worst cyber attack, hackers have stolen the personal particulars of 1.5 million patients. Of these, 160,000 people, including Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and a few ministers, had their outpatient prescriptions stolen as well. The hackers infiltrated the computers of SingHealth, Singapore&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,66,15],"tags":[343,129,655],"class_list":["post-44225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-health-science","category-technology","tag-crimeandpunishment","tag-hack","tag-singapore"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-bvj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44226,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44225\/revisions\/44226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}