The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) is investigating an alleged data breach on its full disclosure policy portal wherein around 22 gigabytes of internal data were leaked.
Deep Web Konek, a cybersecurity advocacy organization, said more than 40 million records from the FDPP system such as audit trails, logs, attachments and user information were leaked.
Sought for comment, Interior Secretary Jonvic Remulla said they are validating the supposed data breach.
‘I’ll get to it,’ Remulla said.
The hacker is said to be the same actor who defaced a DILG web directory.
Deep Web Konek said the cyber attack included a quote from the attacker: ‘Anyone can be corrupt given the opportunity to do so, but corruption remains a matter of CHOICE.’
There were also reports of websites by government agencies and local government units being hacked by threat actors.
The hackers left messages protesting corruption in flood control projects.
Among the affected websites were from local governments in Zamboanga Sibugay, Zamboanga del Sur and Zamboanga del Norte.