The SingHealth Cyberattack Was So Sophisticated That Only Countries Like These Could Have Pulled It Off Singapore’s under attack! Cyberattack, that is. On Friday (20 Jul), the Government announced that SingHealth had been affected by a massive data breach, with the data of about 1.5 million patients stolen. Alarmingly, the hackers seemed to have been after the data of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. There’s no official word on who carried out the SingHealth cyberattack, but given its scale, it must have been a highly efficient group. Which is why some are speculating that it wasn’t just an Anonymous-type group, but a foreign government that attacked us. Who could it be? MustShareNews breaks down the possibilities. 1. North Korea As The New York Times (NYT) put it, the world once laughed at North Korea’s cyberpower. But not anymore. The hermit kingdom has a cyber warfare team of 6,000, according to NYT. This team managed to run off with US$81 million from the Bangladeshi central bank – without even stepping foot in Bangladesh. That’s the power of cyber warfare. And in May 2016, Mr Kim Jong-un’s administration allegedly brought down hundreds of thousands of computers around the world – including important ones from […]
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