June 21, 2024
Philippines’ largest fast-food chain, Jollibee Foods Corporation said the data breach may have exposed personal data of 32 million customers and 650 million records related to the Jollibee’s food delivery operations.
The compromised data reportedly includes sensitive customer information such as names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and hashed passwords. Additionally, extensive records of food delivery orders, sales transactions, and service details have been exposed.
June 21, 2024
Health maintenance organization Maxicare on June 19, confirmed a data breach that exposed personal information of 13,000 members representing less than 1 percent of its membership base
The exposed records are believed to be of those who used Lab@Home, a booking platform of their third-party home-care provider. It added that Lab@Home maintained a separate database for booking requests, which is not integrated with Maxicare’s system. The company also affirmed customers that its business operations, network, and customer data has not been impacted in any way.
June 16, 2024
MANILA, Philippines – The Maritime Industry Authority (MARINA) confirmed that a cyberattack compromised at least four of its systems, becoming the latest victim in a growing list of government agencies that have recently faced data breaches.
The attack, which happened on Sunday, June 16, hit four of MARINA’s “web-based systems.” MARINA’s systems manage various types of information, including vessel registrations, seafarers’ information documents, and record books. MARINA said that it aimed to bring systems back online “to receive and process applications on Tuesday, June 18, 2024.”
On July 4, MARINA assured stakeholders its newly launched, blockchain-enabled online certification system has been made more secure. It now employs a two-factor authentication during log-in. Only MARINA clients are allowed to register and use the program.
March 12, 2024
Acer Philippines confirmed that employee data was stolen in an attack on a third-party vendor who manages the company’s employee attendance data. “Earlier today a threat actor known as ‘ph1ns’ published a link to download a stolen database containing Acer employee data for free on a hacking forum.”
October 25, 2023
Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. said one of the servers managed by its motorcycle manufacturing and sales subsidiary in the Philippines, Yamaha Motor Philippines, Inc. (YMPH), was hit by a ransomware attack, and a partial leakage of employees’ personal information.
Upon learning of the attack, the IT Center at Yamaha Motor headquarters in Japan and YMPH immediately set up a countermeasures team and have been working to prevent further damage while investigating the scope of the impacts, the company said in a statement.
In addition, the company said it is working on a recovery together with an external Internet security company, but it thinks it will take time until the full extent of the damage can be confirmed.