The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) on Friday, Feb. 14, denied reports of a data breach, dismissing the claims as “fake news.”
The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office on Friday, Feb. 14, denied reports of a data breach, dismissing the claims as “fake news.”“I have just checked. At the moment, none of our websites are compromised, breached, or hacked,” PCSO General Manager Mel Robles said in a statement, warning the public to “beware of fake news for views.”
The agency urged the public to rely only on official announcements and warned against spreading false information online.Robles categorically described the report as fake news, stressing that there was “never a breach” in any of the official sites or databases of the PCSO. He emphasized that the news report came from an “alleged group of hackers who were obviously attempting to make a name for themselves by claiming they breached the PCSO system.”The PCSO explained that “the post simply stated that the group obtained email accounts of PCSO employees—most probably the email accounts of branch office personnel from the Cagayan branch—based on the screenshots attached to the post.
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