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DICT confirms hacking of disaster portal
By Nidz Godino
“We confirm that there was breach in one of the external units of DICT, Disaster Risk Reduction Management… DRRMD, disaster and emergency response unit of DICT,” Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) confirmed successful data hack on its Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Division (DRRMD) portal and systems.
At virtual press conference, Renato Paraiso, ICT assistant secretary for legal affairs and spokesman, said hack was limited to DRRMD systems, he stressed was not connected to DICT central office systems.
“This system is outside system of DICT central office,” Paraiso said.
He pointed out that DRRMD portal was open system because it was meant for information dissemination during emergencies.
Paraiso said system of DRRMD was intentionally designed to be easily accessible and had no firewalls.
Paraiso stressed hack was isolated to that of DRRMD.
“When it comes to extent and size of data, very, very minor,” Paraiso said.
Data breach compromised data of about 10 individual employees of the unit.
“Even government assets, vehicles, systems there… only data stored there, again, even though it’s not privacy concern, we already reported this to National Privacy Commission because it involved employee data,” Paraiso said.
Jeffrey Ian Dy, ICT Undersecretary for Infostructure Management, Cybersecurity and Upskilling, said breach involved about 230MB of data.
“Affected are disposition of our Emergency Communications System…no sensitive data exposed…please note that this is emergency information portal for disaster coordination which is detached from entire DICT ICT infrastructure,” Dy said.
Dy also said DICT was already going after hacker that claimed responsibility for the hack.
“We are investigating PH1NS further,” Dy said.
Country’s largest e-wallet service provider GCash assured National Privacy Commission (NPC) there has been no data breach that has compromised personal data of any of its millions of users.
NPC said GCash has not filed any breach notification report regarding any supposed data breach on its systems.
Rainier Anthony Milanes, chief of NPC compliance and monitoring division, said “in the interest of transparency,” GCash had reached out to them as early as June 27 regarding alleged data breach.
“GCash has conducted initial assessment of their systems and found that there was no indication of personal data breach,” Milanes said.
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