By now you might have heard about the breach in SingHealth's database, where the personal particulars of 1.5 million patients were stolen, including that of a few ministers and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong:

In a Facebook post on Friday afternoon, following a press conference helmed by Health Minister Gan Kim Yong and Minister for Communications and Information S Iswaran, PM Lee said the hackers targeting his data would be "disappointed" with the data he found on him, as "there is nothing alarming in it":

"I don’t know what the attackers were hoping to find. Perhaps they were hunting for some dark state secret, or at least something to embarrass me. If so, they would have been disappointed. My medication data is not something I would ordinarily tell people about, but there is nothing alarming in it."

However, PM Lee observed that the hackers involved are "extremely skilled and determined" and will "never give up trying" to hack into local databases in order to destabilise our security.

He also mentioned that government systems come under attack thousands of times a day. Unfortunately, he wrote, this time it was successful. 

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He ended by saying he was asked if he wanted his personal records also digitised, and that he specifically agreed in a testament to his faith in SingHealth's best efforts to protect patients' information.

"We cannot go back to paper records and files. We have to go forward, to build a secure and smart nation."

You can read his post below:

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Top photo via Prime Minister's Office Singapore