http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2019/01/03/2003707246
By Sherry Hsiao
Staff writer
Jan 03, 2019
The Investigation Bureau's Taipei office yesterday said it suspects that a
cyberattack last year on the Taipei Department of Health’s information
systems originated in China.
The bureau said in a statement that in August last year, it received a
report from the department saying that its information systems had been
accessed by hackers and that more than 2.98 million pieces of Taipei
residents' personal information had been stolen and sold overseas.
The systems that were hacked included Taipei's "health cloud" system to
manage individual cases of dementia, sources said.
An investigation completed in November last year found that hackers
launched a cyberattack on the department’s network via the Web site of a
small to medium-sized enterprise with relatively weak data security, the
bureau said.
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