Details of 14,200 HIV Patients in Singapore Posted Online
Return To ArticleFor the second time inside a year, private health information belonging to people in Singapore has been compromised.
Unlike last year’s data breach — which was caused by what appears to be a targeted cyberattack — the details this time around were exposed by unauthorized access to the ministry’s HIV Registry, which occurred in person.
Mikhy K. Farrera-Brochez, a U.S. citizen who spent more than eight years in Singapore before being deported last year over fraud and drug-related offences, is said to have posted the information on the internet after he gained access to it via his partner Ler Teck Siang, a doctor who once led the Ministry of Health’s National Public Health Unit.
