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Singaporean Defence Ministry reports cyberattack

The Singaporean Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) on February 28 announced that hackers stole basic personal information of 850 military staff in an attack targeting its computer system.
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Hanoi (VNA) – The Singaporean Ministry ofDefence (MINDEF) on February 28 announced that hackers stole basic personalinformation of 850 military staff in an attack targeting its computer system.

The MINDEF detected the I-net system being attacked atthe beginning of this month.

The I-net system allows the ministry’s staff andsoldiers to get access to the Internet via the ministry’s end-user devices aswell as at the bases of Singapore’s armed forces.

Stolen data includes phone number, birth date, andidentification number.

The MINDEF instructed the Cybersecurity Agency and theGovernment’s Technology Agency to check other governmental systems but detectedno new attacks.

The MINDEF’s statement said the attack had beenplanned carefully with the goal of approaching confidential information. As theI-net system does not connect with the internal network and it contains noconfidential information, hackers did not get any confidential information.

In 2016, Singapore disconnected civil servants’working computer system from the Internet in case of cyberattacks.

Previously, some ministries of Singapore, includingthe MINDEF and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, used their own customisedsystems to browse the Internet.-VNA

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