Chinese hackers suspected in attack

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http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2019/01/03/2003707246

By Sherry Hsiao
Staff writer
Jan 03, 2019

The Investigation Bureau's Taipei office yesterday said it suspects that a 
cyberattack last year on the Taipei Department of Health’s information 
systems originated in China.

The bureau said in a statement that in August last year, it received a 
report from the department saying that its information systems had been 
accessed by hackers and that more than 2.98 million pieces of Taipei 
residents' personal information had been stolen and sold overseas.

The systems that were hacked included Taipei's "health cloud" system to 
manage individual cases of dementia, sources said.

An investigation completed in November last year found that hackers 
launched a cyberattack on the department’s network via the Web site of a 
small to medium-sized enterprise with relatively weak data security, the 
bureau said.

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