Singapore’s largest group of health care institutions suffered a data breach affecting 1.5 million patients, ZDNet reports. The personal information compromised in the attack against SingHealth, a group made up of numerous clinical specialties, public hospitals and specialty centers, included patients’ names, national identification numbers, addresses and dates of birth. The outpatient medical data of about 160,000 patients was affected, as well. Among the victims of the data breach include Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. "No other patient records, such as diagnosis, test results or doctors' notes, were breached [and] we have not found evidence of a similar breach in the other public healthcare IT systems," the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Communications and Information said in a joint statement.
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