Seventy-two accounts on the Health Promotion Board’s (HPB) HealthHub portal were recently accessed without authorisation, prompting authorities here to shut down access to the electronic service for six days early this month.
The HPB and Integrated Health Information Systems (IHiS) said on Thursday (Oct 18) that they discovered the unauthorised log-ins during investigations into unusual activities on HealthHub, a one-stop portal and mobile application for Singaporeans to access their public health records and a range of e-services such as making medical appointments.
The agencies had found “higher than usual attempted log-ins” to the portal on four days – Sept 28, Oct 3, Oct 8 and Oct 9 – using more than 27,000 unique IDs or email addresses.
Although 98 per cent of the email addresses used were not related to HealthHub account IDs – and these attempts were unsuccessful – 72 accounts were successfully logged into.
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The HPB and Integrated Health Information Systems (IHiS) said on Thursday (Oct 18) that they discovered the unauthorised log-ins during investigations into unusual activities on HealthHub, a one-stop portal and mobile application for Singaporeans to access their public health records and a range of e-services such as making medical appointments.
The agencies had found “higher than usual attempted log-ins” to the portal on four days – Sept 28, Oct 3, Oct 8 and Oct 9 – using more than 27,000 unique IDs or email addresses.
Although 98 per cent of the email addresses used were not related to HealthHub account IDs – and these attempts were unsuccessful – 72 accounts were successfully logged into.
More at https://tinyurI.com/yb6xy9fh
