Acer Philippines acknowledged that a security incident happened involving its third-party vendor managing employee attendance data. It assured the public that no breach or leak of any customer data occurred, and that customer data remains unaffected by the incident and are secure.
PNP ACG took down their website following a claim on Sunday, March 3, by the hacking group Philippines Exodus Security and Vend3tta from Philippine Cyber Mafia that they had managed to enter PNP ACG's systems and gained access to internal SQL databases.
As reported by vpnMentor earlier this week, cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered a non-password protected cloud storage database involving Filipino students and parents that contained 210,020 records, with a total size of 153.76 gigabytes.
Out of the 124 million compromised Internet accounts, 50 million have unique email addresses, which means an average user email in the Philippines has been breached almost three times.
With the launch of the Data Breach Notification Management System (DBNMS), the NPC will no longer accept other forms of submissions except through the DBMNS online platform.
The breach incident has made the rounds online after social media personality Christian Albert “Xian” Gaza disclosed information on the ransomware attack in a number of posts in his Facebook page.
According to a discussion thread in the Facebook page of Privacy.PH, the personal data being peddled at the dark Web appears to be legitimate although Cashalo has not yet submitted any breach incident report to the NPC.
