PM among 1.5m Singaporean victims of hackers

A MAJOR cyber attack on Singapore’s largest health group leaked the personal and healthcare information of 1.5million people, including Lee Hsien Loong, the country’s prime minister, it has emerged.

The massive data leak hit around a fifth of the city state’s population, making it the biggest in Singapore’s history. The “deliberate, targeted and wellplanned” attack on Singhealth, the country’s main healthcare group, was aimed at patients who visited clinics in the last three years, Singapore’s health ministry said.

“It was not the work of casual hackers or criminal gangs,” the ministry said. “The attackers specifically and repeatedly targeted Lee Hsien Loong’s personal particulars and information on his outpatient dispensed medicines.”

The prime minister said “only a few countries in the world” had the level of sophistication to carry out the attack.

Last year, a massive cyber attack hit companies and organisations across the world, including NHS computers.