Data Leak in Singapore Exposes HIV Status of 14,000 Locals and Foreign Visitors

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    Medical records and contact information belonging to thousands of HIV-positive Singaporeans and foreign visitors to the southeast Asian city state have been leaked online, according to an alert issued by the country’s Ministry of Health (MOH).

    In a statement on its website, the ministry said the confidential health information of some 14,200 individuals diagnosed with HIV had been exposed.

    “The information has been illegally disclosed online,” it said. “We have worked with the relevant parties to disable access to the information.”

    The MOH said the information was in the possession of a U.S. citizen named Mikhy K Farrera Brochez, who had been remanded to prison in Singapore in 2016, convicted of numerous fraud and drug-related offenses. The ministry said Brochez had lied about his HIV status in order to obtain an employment pass in the country.

    Brochez, who could not be reached for comment, was reportedly deported after serving a 28-month sentence. The MOH said he’d been aided in criminal activity by his partner, a Singaporean doctor who was formerly head of MOH’s National Public Health Unit.

    Citing a local charity, CNN reported Monday that while the law prohibiting HIV-positive tourists from entering the state had been relaxed, they are still barred from receiving employment visas or permanent resident status.

    The exposed records belong to 5,400 Singaporeans diagnosed with HIV before January 2013, and 8,800 foreigners diagnosed before December 2011, the MOH said.

    “While access to the confidential information has been disabled, it is still in the possession of the unauthorised person, and could still be publicly disclosed in the future,” it said. “We are working with relevant parties to scan the Internet for signs of further disclosure of the information.”
     
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    5,400 locals is ~.1 percent of their population.
     
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    Feel sorry for these people as, even in America, we still live under the “HIV is God’s Wrath” bullshit from religious and scientifically stupid fuckers (liberal or conservative). Not sure about progressive or regressive aspects of culture in Singapore...could only imagine what it’d be like to have that info exposed in backward assed Muslim or Marxist Asian nations....
     
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    Sadly. this can happen here in the US. No one is watching our data and who is in control of it.
     
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    I have a question. Why are HIV records kept private?
     
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    Because it's private health information We have HIPPA Laws in the states.

    You know that people would discriminate against HIV positive people. They would try to ban them from schools, show up at their jobs, deny housing, etc
     
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