SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A U.S. citizen who leaked the names of more than 14,000 HIV-positive people in Singapore has been found guilty by a U.S. court of illegally transferring personal data and threatening the Singapore government, court filings show. Singapore deported Mikhy Farrera-Brochez last year after convicting him of numerous drug-related and fraud offences, including lying about his own HIV status. On Tuesday, a U.S. District Court jury in Kentucky found Farrera-Brochez guilty on charges related to obtaining the HIV data and sending threatening emails to Singapore officials that included links to where he had posted the database online. "A federal jury has found Mikhy Farrera-Brochez ... guilty of two counts of sending threatening communications to the Government of Singapore and its Ministry of Health," a filing on the U.S. Department of Justice website said. The HIV data leak came after a major cyberattack last year on Singapore's national health database.

Source: The Star June 06, 2019 03:45 UTC