Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra revealed on Monday (May 3) that the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) has begun investigating its own online data breach.
“I understand that the OSG is now looking into this alleged data breach,” he said.
“The DOJ has not received any such information through official channels but will be ready to assist the OSG, if necessary,” he added.
The breach was discovered by London-based security firm TurgenSec which sent e-mails last March 1 and 24 to the OSG and the Philippine government about the data breach.
Though its e-mails were unanswered, TurgenSec said “the breach was closed by the 28th of April, presumably using information provided by TurgenSec.”
“This breach was accessed and downloaded by an unknown third party that is not TurgenSec,” TurgenSec said in a statement.
“The information was left public facing where anyone with a browser and internet connection could access it,” it added.
TurgenSec said the breach appears to contain “over 300,000 files and documents” that includes the day to day running of ‘The Solicitor General of the Philippines’, to staff training documents, internal passwords and policies, staffing payment information, information on financial processes, and activities including audits, and several hundred files titled with presumably sensitive keywords such as ‘Private, Confidential, Witness and Password’.”
“The nature of these documents is of particular concern as it may have the potential to disrupt/undermine on-going judicial proceedings,” it said.
Source: Latest Politics News Today (Politics.com.ph)
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