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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: 1) by pTamok on Tuesday January 29 2019, @06:29PM (4 children)
It's just over a year since Norway announced a leak of 2.9 million people's health records [securityonline.info].
I think we have to assume that at some point in our lives 'all our data are belong to $HACKER' and plan accordingly. Just as well-prepared companies have disaster recovery / business continuity plans and data breach & incident response plans, so should we as individuals have the same. Sad, but true.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday January 29 2019, @08:27PM (3 children)
How many of those 2.9 million people had the big HIV?
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(Score: 3, Informative) by MostCynical on Tuesday January 29 2019, @10:02PM (2 children)
~2,900 [worldbank.org] (0.1%)
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 29 2019, @10:35PM (1 child)
Let's throw them off tall buildings, and if they survive, stone them to death. Problem solved
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 30 2019, @06:16AM
Oh shut up virgin.