Another data breach: more than 800,000 blood donors’ personal information leaked online

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HSA sorry for vendors' security lapse but assures centralised blood bank system not affected.

on Mar 15 regarding the improper handling of confidential information.

The vendor, which provides services to HSA, has been working on a database containing personal information of 808,201 of HSA’s blood donors. Information such as the name, NRIC, gender, number of blood donations, dates of the last three blood donations, and in some cases, blood type, height, and weight were compromised.

It was a cybersecurity expert who had first spotted the vulnerability and had immediately alerted the Personal Data Protection Commission. Soon after, HSA and SSG disabled access to the database and a police report was made. With the ongoing investigation, preliminary findings have shown no other unauthorised access to the database aside from the cybersecurity expert, during its period of vulnerability.

 

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