Tim Culpan, Columnist

Singapore Hack Is a Speed Bump for $9 Trillion Industry

Health tech will roll on after this data breach.

Let’s keep it in here.

Photographer: Wei Leng Tay/Bloomberg
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As far as cyberhacks go, those in health care are particularly irksome.

The notion that some stranger, a malicious one at that, has accessed our medical data gets under most people’s skin. Even beyond financial and employment data, there’s nothing more personal than our history of diseases, diagnoses and medicines, including possibly psychological or even terminal conditions.