Over 1 million records from NBI, PNP, other agencies leaked in huge data breach

Sofia Abrogar - @inquirerdotnet 04/19/2023

MANILA, Philippines — A total of 1,279,437 records from law enforcement agencies, including police employee records, were left exposed in a massive data breach, according to a report published by cybersecurity research firm VPNMentor on Tuesday. The…

Palace to mayors: Don’t skip vaccine line or we lose 44M doses of COVID-19 jabs

Daphne Galvez - Reporter / @DYGalvezINQ 03/25/2021

MANILA, Philippines — Malacañang on Thursday cautioned local chief executives not to skip the line in the government’s COVID-19 vaccination program because such a breach of the priority ranking might result in the Philippines losing 44 million…

PH COVID-19 cases near 19K mark, as recoveries breach 4,000

Darryl John Esguerra 06/02/2020

MANILA, Philippines — The total confirmed coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in the Philippines reached 18,997 on Tuesday, as the Department of Health (DOH) reported 359 additional cases. Of the newly logged cases, 176 have been classified as…

PH COVID-19 cases breach 15,000 mark as deaths exceed 900

Darryl John Esguerra 05/27/2020

MANILA, Philippines —  The number of confirmed coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients in the Philippines has reached 15,049, as the Department of Health (DOH) reported 380 new cases as of 4 p.m. on Wednesday. This is the…

BREAKING: COVID-19 cases in PH breach 4,000 mark; now at 4,076

Daphne Galvez 04/09/2020

MANILA, Philippines — With 206 new confirmed cases of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) recorded on Thursday, the total has surpassed the 4,000 mark at 4,076. Meanwhile, more than 200 COVID-19 patients have died of the disease…

Capitol to terminate P1B bulk water JIA with Manila Water for ‘uncured’ breaches

Rosalie Abatayo 12/09/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu Provincial Capitol is set to terminate its Joint Investment Agreement (JIA)  with the Manila Water Consortium Inc. after the latter “failed to cure the breaches” in the agreement within their 90-day…

PJ Lhuillier group admits data breach on its pawnshop email server

Irene R. Sino Cruz 01/19/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Some personal identity information of around hundreds of thousands of Cebuana Lhuillier clients has been stolen. This is revealed in a statement issued by the PJ Lhuillier Group of Companies, the mother company…

Data breach hits Cebuana Lhuillier, around 900k clients affected

Inquirer.net 01/19/2019

MANILA, Philippines — Data of some 900,000 Cebuana Lhuillier clients was compromised after the company admitted on Saturday that one of its email servers was affected by a data breach. According to the company, the data breach…

Facebook says 87M may be affected by data breach

AFP 04/05/2018

Facebook said Wednesday the personal data of up to 87 million users was improperly shared with British political consultancy Cambridge Analytica, as Mark Zuckerberg defended his leadership at the huge social network. Facebook’s estimate was far higher…

‘Hacker-for-hire’ pleads guilty to Yahoo! breach

Inquirer.net 11/30/2017

SAN FRANCISCO — A Canadian man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to charges stemming from a massive breach at Yahoo that authorities said was directed by two Russian intelligence agents and affected at least a half billion user…

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