Stock market broker AB Capital Securities admitted last Feb. 3 that its system was hacked last Jan. 25, causing the temporary suspension of its trading activities for its clients. PCSO, meanwhile, denied that its system was breached by a local hacking group.
A report published on Sunday, Jan. 19, by cybersecurity news blog kukublanph has claimed that the online database of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) was pilfered, leading to a massive data breach.
Asean’s critical infrastructure organizations experienced the highest breach costs, with financial services participants saw the costliest breaches at $5.57 million.
The confirmation comes on the heels of another reported major hacking incident at grocery chain S&R as reported by cybersecurity monitoring site Deep Web Konek.
Saying it is the first such initiative it has undertaken, the National Privacy Commission (NPC) has launched the "Na-leak ba ang PhilHealth Data ko?", a database search portal designed to help individuals verify the status of their personal information in light of the recent hacking incident against PhilHealth.
On October 8, Sunday, an actor on Facebook posted download links to data files belonging to the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), and potentially the Department of Science and Technology's (DOST) OneExpert system, and the Philippine National Police (PNP) Forensic group.
The latest edition of the “Cost of a Data Breach Report” from IBM Security has revealed that the average cost of a data breach in Asean countries, including in Philippines, reached $3.05 million in 2023 – an all-time high for the report and a 6% increase year-to-year.
Despite the denial of a data breach by some law enforcement agencies, the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) said on Thursday, April 20, that copies of leaked personal data were stored in an Azure cloud site.
The leaked records include personal information such as names, addresses, contact details, and even medical records of police officers, prosecutors, and judges, the NPC said, citing an online report.
