Vendor Exposes Singapore Health Blood Donor Data

In the aftermath of news that a vendor left the personal data of more than 800,000 blood donors exposed, Singapore’s Health Sciences Authority (HSA) issued a letter to those potentially impacted. The vendor, Secur Solutions Group Pte. Ltd. (SSG), was working on a database that reportedly contained only registration-related information of 800,201 blood donors, but SSG had not adequately safeguarded against the database being accessed over the internet. “A cybersecurity expert had discovered this vulnerability and alerted the Personal Data Protection Commission. HSA immediately worked with SSG to disable access to the database, and we have also made a Police report. The expert has confirmed to HSA that he does not intend to disclose the contents of the database. HSA is in contact with the expert on deleting the information,” the letter stated.