The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) said it is investigating a hacking incident on the Anti-Red Tape Authority’s (ARTA) Policy Reform, Innovation, and Streamlining Management (PRISM) platform that occurred on the evening of September 16, 2025.
The hacktivist group Deathnote Hackers International has claimed responsibility for the leak of roughly 445,000 entries from Pagcor's National Database of Restricted Persons (NDRP), which contains names of government officials prohibited from playing in gambling establishments.
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.
DICT undersecretary David Almirol reported that the eGov Super App was not touched by hackers. What the attackers managed to do was to upload a file to a subdomain of the eGov website.
Local conglomerate JG Summit Holdings said on Thursday, Aug. 8, that it is investigating a reported ransomware attack launched by a hacking group called RansomHub.
The Government Energy Management Program (GEMP) system portal of the Department of Energy (DOE) was defaced late Saturday afternoon, July 27. The group Deathnote Hackers claimed responsibility for the defacement.
Arturo Samaniego Jr., who used to hold the title as technology editor of the Manila Bulletin but is now the paper’s “senior technology officer”, is set be charged by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) for orchestrating a series of hackings against government and privately-owned websites.
China has denied allegations that Chinese hackers attempted to breach the email systems and internal websites of key government agencies in the Philippines.
