Incidents in country:
5 incidents catalogued
The Medusa ransomware gang breached the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation, exfiltrating around 750 GB of sensitive member and medical data and demanding a $300,000 ransom; the government refused to pay and the data was leaked.
Over 700 customers of the Philippines' largest bank, BDO Unibank, lost money through unauthorized online transfers routed to UnionBank accounts under the alias 'Mark Nagoyo'; five suspects were later arrested and BDO reimbursed victims.
In March 2018, Wendy's in the Philippines suffered a data breach which impacted over 52k customers and job applicants. The breach exposed extensive personal information including names, email and IP addresses, physical addresses, phone numbers and passwords stored as MD5 hashes.
Hackers defaced the Philippine Commission on Elections website and leaked its entire voter registration database — records on roughly 55 million voters, including 15.8 million fingerprints and 1.3 million overseas passport numbers — in one of the largest government breaches ever.
Lazarus operators sent fraudulent SWIFT instructions through the New York Fed to wire $951 million out of Bangladesh Bank's reserve account. A typo on one transfer stopped $850M; $81M still escaped to Philippine casinos.