MANILA, Philippines – Beware of pretend information for views.
Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Workplace (PCSO) Normal Supervisor Mel Robles issued this warning to the general public on Friday as one other pretend information circulated on social media, claiming that the company’s database had been hacked by an obscure group of hackers.
In an announcement, GM Robles categorically described the report as pretend information, stressing that there was by no means a breach in any of official websites or knowledge base of the PCSO.
“That is pretend information. There was no breach nor any profitable try to hack the methods of PCSO. We’ve not reported something to DICT as a result of nothing had occurred,” he stated.
“Calm down, in the present day is Valentine’s Day and don’t let it’s ruined by some teams who had been out to besmirch or solid doubt on the integrity of our video games. It’s too early for April Idiot’s Day and allow us to not simply fall for it,” he added.
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“Whereas there have been quite a few makes an attempt (previously) to hack our system coming from all around the world, our digital defenses are holding out and stay impregnable,” he confused.
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He was disputing a web-based information that the PCSO and the Division of Data and Communications Know-how (DICT), had been reportedly investigating a report on an alleged breach of the information of lotto winners.
GM Robles emphasised that the information report got here from an alleged group of hackers who had been clearly making an attempt to make a reputation for itself, by claiming that they had been in a position to breach the PCSO system.
The PCSO chief was, nevertheless, fast to make clear that none of their accounts was attacked or compromised.
He added that what the publish was merely saying was that the group was in a position to pay money for e mail accounts of PCSO staff, likely, the e-mail accounts of department workplace personnel from Cagayan Department, based mostly on the screenshots connected to the publish.
GM Robles, nevertheless, identified that it was the record of people who availed of the promo of the PCSO department in March 2022 and never names of winners, whether or not of jackpot or comfort prizes.
The image of a lady holding tickets is a proof that the promo tickets had been availed of by “actual” folks, thus the knowledge printed by the hackers really belong to the recipients of a promo of a department in Cagayan in March of 2022 and never of lotto winners.
“Our database for the lotto jackpot winners is secure within the head workplace. The department places of work are usually not related to the pinnacle workplace.
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GM Robles earlier already beforehand dismissed the claims, saying the methods and websites of the government-owned and managed company are secured.
“I’ve simply checked, in the mean time, none of our web sites is compromised, breached, or hacked,” Robles confused.
