Authorities are trying to get to the bottom of the reported exposure of the database managed by the Philippine National Police that may have compromised the personal information of more than a million people between January and March this year. /PDI
“As your data privacy authority, the NPC is fully committed to protecting personal information and assures the public that we will not leave a stone unturned in getting to the bottom of this alleged breach,” NPC commissioner John Henry Naga said in a statement.
Some of them were clearances issued by the PNP, the NBI, the Bureau of Internal Revenue and the Civil Service Commission , which mostly contain fingerprint scans and signatures. Police Brig. Gen. Sidney Hernia, director of the PNP Anti-Cybercrime Group , maintained that “we cannot categorically say at this time that there was a leak” pending the results of the “vulnerability assessment and penetration testing” on the PNP systems.
The DICT’s National Computer Emergency Response Team did not classify the incident as a data breach when it was first reported to the agency in March, Uy explained. While the documents issued by the NBI, BIR and CSC may have been exposed, it doesn’t necessarily mean that the systems of these agencies have been hacked, he added.
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