DICT still working to take back hacked DOST website

DICT Assistant Secretary for legal affairs and spokesman Renato Paraiso said the DOST and DICT’s emergency response personnel remain locked out of the DOST systems that were successfully penetrated and encrypted by the hacker group on Tuesday night.

“As to the extent and possible ramifications... we still have to determine , because until now, we are still isolated and we are still locked out from accessing part of their system,” Paraiso said in a virtual press briefing yesterday morning. Paraiso said that the DICT’s National Computer Emergency Response Team had detected the breach at 11 a.m. on April 3.

He mentioned that the hack of the DOST system meant that the threat actor was able to compromise all DOST data, including the database of research and development files, patent proposals and applications for inventions.“If we do a comparison of the PhilHealth hacking, this is smaller comparatively but the data hacked from PhilHealth was more sensitive because it involves the personal data of its members,” he explained.

“In terms of size, recently, this is one of the biggest. You have to understand, comparatively. The impact is not that big ,” Paraiso emphasized.

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