Ransomware data may drop in hours as PhilHealth sneers at ransom demand
Source: Newsbytes.PH
Published on: 2023-10-02 13:45
There may be less than 24 hours before data which may have been obtained by hackers in the PhilHealth (Philippine Health Insurance Corporation) Medusa ransomware attack will be released to the public. According to the countdown timer on the Medusa blog on the dark Web, the files they supposedly exfiltrated from PhilHealth's systems will be released on October 3 Philippine time if the $300,000-ransom is not paid in cryptocurrency. The Medusa ransomware group has allegedly published data of other breached organizations previously, and PhilHealth data is the next to be released on the countdown timeline on their blog. But in a press conference on Monday, Oct. 2, PhilHealth officials stood pat on the agency's position not to give in to the ransom demand of the hackers. "No membership data was lost, so it's clearly a bluff. Let's just wait for their bluff," said PhilHealth president and C...
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