Singapore's healthcare sector is reeling after 1.5 million people had their health records stolen by hackers.
And it appears the country's Prime Minister, Lee Hsien Loong, was actually targeted in the hack.
Politico's Morning eHealth update puts it like this:
"Singapore government officials called the attack against the country’s largest network of hospitals and clinics 'a deliberate, targeted and well-planned cyberattack and not the work of casual hackers or criminal gangs.' The city-state announced Friday that the hackers had targeted Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong specifically. The attack started two weeks after Singapore hosted the summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un."
The timing is no surprise, however.
Healthcare hack followed malware spikeDonald Trump and Kim Jong Un are magnets for malware, which can provide network access to pull off an attack like this. Learn more about that in my interview with Kenneth Geers, Chief Research Scientist for Comodo Security: