Smart Nation hits speed bump with cyberattack
When credit card details are hacked, banks can easily cancel the accounts and replace the cards. The same cannot be said with stolen medical records.
When credit card details are hacked, banks can easily cancel the accounts and replace the cards. The same cannot be said with stolen medical records.
State-actors were likely behind Singapore's biggest ever cyberattack to date, security experts say, citing the scale and sophistication of the hack.The city-state announced Friday that hackers had broken into a government database and stolen the health records of 1.5 million Singaporeans, including Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong who was specifically targeted in the "unprecedented" attack.Singapore's health minister said the strike was "a deliberate, targeted, and well