Published December 10, 2020, 9:46 AM
Many Philippine government servers remain to be vulnerable as hackers continue to leak data from poorly protected websites. The recent Office of the Solicitor General data leak was not the first, early September this year, another group of hackers breached the security of the server of the OSG. MalaikatHati a hacker believed to be from Indonesia defaced career.osg.gov.ph and posted: “We hack this site to inform about the vulnerability of your site. Please patch your security, A big vulnerability found at your site”. A warning that was obviously not taken seriously by the agency as more than a month later, Phantom Troupe, a Pinoy hacking group, went inside the server using the same vulnerability exploited by the Indonesian hacker. According to Phantom Troupe, the group downloaded more than nine thousand files that include personally identifiable information of people applying for a job at the OSG.