PERSONALLY identifiable information of Philippine Health Insurance Corp. members and its employees are now being leaked on the dark web and the responsibility now lies on them to protect themselves from potential scams and attacks from bad actors.
Information of “some employees and a small portion of PhilHealth members” are now available on the dark web for bad actors to utilize to launch cyberattacks, including scams, phishing, smishing, vishing, and other types of malicious activities. Dy confirmed that affected employees and members are now “more vulnerable to cyberattacks” given that their information has been made available to bad actors.
When BusinessMirror asked if what the government can do is to simply “monitor, launch cyber hygiene campaigns, and beef up cybersecurity infrastructure to prevent a repeat of the same attack,” Dy replied in the affirmative. Initially, PhilHealth Acting Senior Manager of the Information Technology and Management Department Nelson de Vera said what was affected by the attack were the application servers and workstations of PhilHealth in its head office in Pasig City.However, the DICT found that the servers affected by the attack also held PIIs of PhilHealth employees and members.
What the DICT can do moving forward is to enable government agencies to strengthen their cybersecurity systems. He also said that the Philippines is seeking partnerships with other nations to prevent a repeat of the attack.
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