For the National Privacy Commission, PhilHealth should be held accountable for its failure to protect the data of its members and employees.
MANILA — The syndicate behind the Medusa Ransomware attack on the system of Philippine Health Insurance Corporation may have gained access to membership data and records amid PhilHealth’s claims that these “remained intact and safe”, a cyber security analyst asserted Wednesday.
“Hangga’t hindi natatapos ang imbestigasyon, hindi natin malalaman. Kasi napasok na nila iyong system ng PhilHealth. Kaya malaki ang possibility na na-access lahat ng data na iyon,” he said further. The Department of Information and Communications Technology , for its part, admitted that removing these posts on the dark web seem to be impossible.
“We currently have a general anti-virus, anti-cybersecurity, but it is not updated, and probably that is where the hackers came in, through that weakness,” PhilHealth’s Executive Vice President Eli Dino Santos said.
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