The Digital Economy and Society (DES) Ministry has urged all state agencies to raise their cybersecurity standards for data protection, especially provincial hospitals that need to connect their systems with the Computer Emergency Response Team for threat monitoring.
The move came after a user on raidforums.com, a database sharing and marketplace forum, on Sunday attempted to sell 16 million records of patients’ data claimed to have been hacked from the Public Health Ministry.
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