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.
The Public Health Ministry clarified on Tuesday that the data was hacked from Phetchabun Hospital but it was not the primary database the hospital used to provide public services.
The hospital insisted the data involves around 10,000 patients and it does not contain medical or diagnosis information.
According to DES minister Chaiwut Thanakamanusorn, the hacked database was used in an…
