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: 2) by takyon on Tuesday January 29 2019, @06:01PM
"Singapore issued a photo of US national Mikhy Farrera-Brochez, who they believe is behind the leak"
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