6 out of 8 PhilHealth external systems up after ransomware attack

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6 out of 8 PhilHealth external systems up after ransomware attack
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Six out of eight external systems of the PhilHealth that had been affected by a Medusa Ransomware attack are now up and running.

MANILA — Six out of eight external systems of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation that had been affected by a Medusa Ransomware attack were up and running on Thursday, the agency’s spokesperson said.

“For our internal systems, we are just checking and scanning all our computers and all our systems before po natin i-up just to make sure na lahat po ay free of all these viruses and para po ay ma-contain din po natin ang lahat, kung ano mang attack ang mayroon. But soon, hopefully by next week, all our internal systems are up and ongoing,” he added.

“Mayroon po [access] because the 96 work stations, iba-iba. Mayroong nasa records station, mayroong nasa processing station, mayroong nasa clerk. Ang mga empleyado po natin have different access, depende po sa kanilang trabaho, depende po sa ibinibigay na access,” Pargas said. • PhilHealth financial files, such as procurement and expenditure data, cash reports, corporate operating budgets, a billing statement, and an authorization letter to debit money to a LandBank account• Copies of department orders, such as PhilHealth Corporation Order Nos. 2023-0010 and 2023-0037, a PhilHealth memorandum order, and Anti-Red Tape Authority Memorandum Circular No. 2022-05

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