Cybersecurity firm reports 68 GB of data from PH gov't agency found publicly online
Source: Rappler
Published on: 2026-10-29 15:14
This is AI-generated. Read the article for full context. Report any errors. MANILA, Philippines - Cybersecurity firm Hunt.io on Wednesday, October 28, reported that it found what appeared to be 68 gigabytes of data from databases of a Philippine government agency. In an email to Rappler on Thursday, October 29, the Hunt.io research team summarized the issue as follows: "A thief copied the data, kept a receipt of it, then left that receipt and their tools on a computer anyone online could open. That mistake is how it came to light, not a public dump of the data." Hunt.io added it did not have the stolen data, but rather reverse-engineered the tools used and read the logs. The exact nature of the potentially stolen files have yet to be determined because the firm did not examine the data. The firm noted, however, that the file names discovered match case-management systems operated by ...
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