The DICT confirms it is now looking at possible suspects behind the data breach in a database of the Philippine Statistics Authority.
MANILA - The Department of Information and Communications Technology confirmed it is now looking at possible suspects behind the data breach in the Community-Based Monitoring System of the Philippine Statistics Authority .
"We want to be responsible as well in statements that we would issue out so we will be more accurate and responsive to all the queries. With the PSA, our suspect is local and amateur,” Paraiso explained. “We would like to ask the public to be very vigilant at huwag ho masyadong mag-panic given that again we have very competent people here in DICT and we would be very transparent if there is an actual attack that happened as long as we can confirm it we will tell the public right away,” Paraiso asked.
“We need the tools to fight cyber attacks, we need the system and hopefully that system will be provided to us. It’s unfortunate na kailangang mangyari yung kaliwa’t kanang mga pag-atake to make us realize how important that we setup a system to prevent these kinds of attack from happening,” Paraiso explained.
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