The CSC had taken steps in order to ensure data privacy.
The Civil Service Commission (CSC) on Monday assured the public that it had taken steps in order to ensure data privacy following a suspected data breach allegedly because of weak security measures on its website.
In a statement, the Civil Service Commission said that as a standard procedure, the CSC had reported the incident to the National Privacy Commission (NPC) and the Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center (CICC), adding that it continued to coordinate with the said government authorities on its following courses of action.
“The CSC assures its clients that, as a data-collecting agency, it takes its role of safeguarding personal information seriously. Additional security features have been incorporated within its system to prevent similar incidents in the future,” the CSC said in a statement.
The data breach incident came on the heels of reports that the confidential and personal data of 3.3 million users of lending app Cashalo were sold on the dark web.
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Meanwhile, a certain hacker who called himself “IamNoobie” told Manila Bulletin that he’s so pissed-off with the way government agencies in the country implemented security in their websites and servers that he decided to “take matters into his own keyboard”.
IamNoobie also told Manila Bulletin that he noticed that the CSC’s server had promising results when he “Google dorked” government websites.
Google Dorking, as reported on Manila Bulletin, was just like a simple search but the attacker could incorporate functions instead of searching for words alone in order to get results that may show hidden contents or services.
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