Singapore's health minister said the strike was "a deliberate, targeted, and well-planned cyberattack and not the work of casual hackers or criminal gangs". "A cyber espionage threat actor could leverage disclosure of sensitive health information... to coerce an individual in (a) position of interest to conduct espionage" on its behalf, said Eric Hoh, Asia-Pacific president of cybersecurity firm FireEye. "A lot of information about a person's health can be gleaned from the medications that they take," Middleton told AFP Saturday. "Any non-public health information could be used for extortion. The hackers used a computer infected with malware to gain access to the database between June 27 and July 4 before administrators spotted "unusual activity", authorities said.

Source: The Nation Bangkok July 21, 2018 07:30 UTC