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U.S. Man Blamed for Singapore Data Leak on 14,200 HIV+ Patients
Records of as many as 14,200 people with HIV and their 2,400 contacts have been "illegally disclosed online", Singapore's health ministry said in a statement, marking the second cyberattack the city-state has suffered in a year.
The HIV-registry data was leaked by a U.S. citizen, Mikhy K. Farrera Brochez, who was deported from Singapore after serving jail time for fraud and drug-related offenses, the ministry said. The leaked information included names, test results and contact details of 5,400 Singaporean citizens and 8,800 foreigners.
The latest data spill comes less than a year after a cyberattack on SingHealth that had exposed the medical data of about 1.5 million people, including outpatient details of the Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. This breach is especially problematic since it compromises the identity of those living with HIV in a region which there's still a lot of social stigma around the condition.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday January 29 2019, @03:48PM (2 children)
They sent Mikhy back. But he did them a favor. Because now they know what a big problem they have. From the H. I. V. Aliens. They have more of those than they have of their own people. And if they send those people back, that will be tremendous for their Country. And, you know, they don't have to let more in. They can do the Scan. Somebody wants to come to Singapore, they get the Scan. The H. I. V. Scan. If it's Positive you can come in. The beautiful Door opens for you. But if the Scan is Negative, you can't come in. You don't have to go home. But you can't come to Singapore. It's called having control of the border, it's called having a country. And they'd have much less H. I. V.!!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 29 2019, @05:10PM
"BUILD A WALL AND CRIME WILL FALL"
More like "Build a wall and it won't do anything for crime or immigration, but it will make it harder for Americans to escape across the southern border when we start rounding up and imprisoning and/or shooting those godless liberals."
and thus the real motivation is revealed...Americans, building their own prisons since at least 1980.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 30 2019, @01:11AM
I don't think you know what positive and negative mean.