Singapore says personal details of 14,200 HIV patients were posted online

For the second time inside a year, private health information belonging to people in Singapore has been compromised.

Following a hack disclosed last summer that affected the patient records of up to 1.5 million citizens, Singapore’s Ministry of Health revealed today that personal details and the HIV-positive status of 14,200 people were posted online by a convinced fraudster.

Unlike last year’s data breach — which was caused by what appears to be a targeted cyber attack — the details this time around where exposed by unauthorized access to the ministry’s HIV Registry, which occurred in person.

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