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Saturday, July 21, 2018

Daily Lessons from Life 20 July 2018 - Cyber attacks!!

"Singapore health system hit by ‘most serious breach of personal data’ in cyberattack; PM Lee's data targeted

A total of 1.5 million SingHealth patients’ non-medical personal data were stolen, while 160,000 of those had their dispensed medicines’ records taken too, according to MCI and MOH.

Investigations by the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA) and the Integrated Health Information System (IHIS) confirmed that the attack was a “deliberate, targeted and well-planned cyberattack” and was not the work of casual hackers or criminal gangs.
Channel NewsAsia understands that authorities have established who might be behind such an attack. There are only a few countries in the world who have the level of sophistication shown during the cyberattack campaign.
"The attackers deliberately, repeatedly and specifically targeted his information and they were able to access and copy the dispensed medication record of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong," Mr Koh, Cyber Security Agency Sgp,  said.
"It's perhaps best not to speculate what the attacker had in mind," he added in response to a question on why Mr Lee's data was targeted.
In an Facebook post, Emeritus Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong revealed that his non-medical personal particulars with SingHealth had also been stolen. 
"Cyber theft is a key risk when going digital. But we cannot stop the digital advance and must strive to build the most secure Smart Nation," he added."
The joke in the cyber security circle is that no secret u want to keep frim hackers should be in digital firm. i e. the best cyber security is in good old fashion paper documents!!
If the attack is indeed state sponsored, it will b very very hard to guard against it without incurring proportionate amt 9f resources vs. the benefits of keeping the info or data safe!! In much more advance nations like the USA, such attacks happened too! Even security agencies like CIA had been hacked into before!
Hopefully the CoI will find out who r the perpetrators, why they did it n how did they succeed so that we can deal with the "hostile nations, if indeed it us state sponsored" n how to ensure such breach will hv to be much much harder.
In the meantime, just remember nothing digital is fully safe fr hacking if the hackers truly zoomed in on you!!

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