Written on 23rd July 2018.
“The hackers infiltrated the computers of SingHealth, Singapore’s largest group of healthcare institutions with four hospitals, five national speciality centres and eight polyclinics. Two other polyclinics used to be under SingHealth.”
Excerpt from The Straits Time News, July 20 2018, 5.29PM, Personal Information of 1.5million SingHealth Patients stolen in Singapore’s worst cyber attack.
“Initial investigations showed that one SingHealth front-end workstation was infected with malware through which the hackers gained access to the data base. The data theft happened between June 27, 2018, and July 4, 2018.”
Excerpt from The Straits Time News, July 20 2018, 5.29PM, Personal Information of 1.5million SingHealth Patients stolen in Singapore’s worst cyber attack.
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