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The data of some 13 million to 20 million members of the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. were leaked to the dark web, the government firm’s Data Privacy Officer Nerissa Santiago said Wednesday.
PhilHealth employees’ workstations and application servers were breached in a Medusa ransomware attack last Sept. 22. “This consists of about 700 of data, and it’s taking us a bit of time to analyze because of the volume of data,” she said.Earlier, AnaKalusugan party-list Rep. Ray Reyes chided PhilHealth for its failure to update its anti-virus protection.
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