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Is Singapore ready for cyber warfare?
On the heels of the SingHealth data breach, Singapore's worst cyber attack, Insight investigates if the country is ready for cyber warfare, even as it works towards becoming a Smart Nation
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Irene Tham and Hariz Baharudin
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As early as 2016, some SingHealth employees' data such as e-mail addresses and passwords had already been shared on the dark Web, with some attempts made to illegally access SingHealth servers.
Israeli cyber security firm CyberInt detected the illicit activities, and also picked up more dark Web chatter about the possibility of hacking SingHealth in April this year, this time from an Indochina-based threat actor, says its chief executive Amir Ofek.
