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SingHealth cyber attack: Delinking PCs from Internet causes some inconvenience to patients
Staff at public healthcare institutions find other methods to complete routine tasks
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The preventive measures were taken after the authorities revealed that a cyber attack had compromised the personal information of around 1.5 million SingHealth patients.
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Staff at Singapore's public healthcare institutions have had to find alternative methods for routine tasks since their computers were temporarily delinked from the Internet last week.
At SingHealth institutions, this means deaths have to be registered at police stations for now, while new parents have to register births directly with the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority.
