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The curious case of the PhilHealth ransomware attack

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Manila Bulletin Tech editor, Art Samaniego, pretty much covered this on-going ransomware attack on the Philippine Health Insurance Commission (PhilHealth/PHIC). The government agencies involved in the investigation have their jobs cut out for them.

on Manila Bulletin. According to Art, the government is not bent on paying the ransom, even if the malicious actors already posted proof of the data they exfiltrated.

Some questions for PHIC - are our data encrypted? If so, why were the malicious actors able to decrypt it? Did PHIC Data Protection Officer require PHIC member data to be encrypted at all times? What the hell happened, really?! Every organization needs to learn from this incident and hope it never happens to them.

What does it mean to the general public? Well, our medical data, and those of our dependents, are at risk of being sold on the dark web. Imagine, anyone, besides Facebook and Google, getting access to your medical data for a fee. The"harmless" direct effect of this is that pharmaceutical companies can get access to your data and directly target you with ads.

Whilst the personal information of PHIC members probably have been out in the public for quite some time already , the super sensitive medical data being out there is worse in so many levels. What is there left to do, but cringe? Poor Filipinos.

 

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