SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Confidential information of 14,200 people with HIV, including their names, contact details and medical information, has been stolen and leaked online, and the culprit is an American fraudster, the Health Ministry said on Monday (Jan 28).
Mikhy Farrera-Brochez, the man behind the leak, lived in Singapore from 2008 before being jailed in 2017 for several fraud and drug-related offences and lying to the Manpower Ministry about his own HIV status.
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