Staff lapses and IT system vulnerabilities are key reasons behind SingHealth cyberattack, according to COI Report

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By Dean Koh
Healthcare IT News
January 09, 2019

After 22 days of public and private hearings involving 37 witness accounts from 
August to November 2018, the Committee of Inquiry (COI) convened to inquire 
into the events and contributing factors leading to the cyberattack on 
Singapore Health Services Private Limited (SingHealth)'s patient database 
system, has released its 454-page public report today.

Between late June to early July 2018, hackers breached SingHealth's Sunrise 
Clinical Management (SCM) database with a "deliberate, targeted and 
well-planned" cyberattack, accessing the data of about 1.5 million patients, 
including Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.

In the report, the Committee identified five key findings:

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