Philhealth data breach largest since 'Comeleak' | Inquirer N...

The recent hacking of Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) computers affected the accounts of "millions" of members, making it the largest breach of government data since the Commission on Elections' (Comelec) "Comeleak" incident in 2016. On the sidelines of the Cybersecurity Month 2023 event on Monday, Information Undersecretary Jeffrey Dy confirmed that a "significant" amount of PhilHealth members' private information was stolen during the Medusa ransomware attack. "We gave a statement that so far we found thousands of [affected accounts]. But it now seems the number is larger," said Dy, who heads the Department of Information and Communications Technology's (DICT) cybersecurity division. According to him, they were roughly 90 percent done analyzing the stolen data, which the National Privacy Commission said involved a "staggering" 730 gigabytes of information, or roughly ...