Tag: breach

DOH Sec. Duque agrees with MMC, says Sen. Pimentel violated quarantine protocols

  (Eagle News) – Health Secretary Francisco Duque III agrees that there was a breach in quarantine protocols when Senator Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III went to the Makati Medical Center when he knew that he was a person under monitoring (PUM) for COVID-19. “Kami po ay sumasang-ayon na nagkaroon ng breach sa quarantine protocols at hindi dapat nangyari ito,” Duque said in a virtual press briefing on Thursday, March 26. He said that this was […]

Pimentel apologizes over breach of Makati hospital safety protocol

(Eagle News)–Senator Koko Pimentel on Thursday, March 26, apologized to the Makati Medical Center for breaching the hospital safety protocol against the coronavirus disease 2019. “I apologize to MMC for being in their hospital [in] the evening of March 24, 2020 which they deemed to be a breach of their safety/containment protocols,”  Pimentel said in a statement. According to Pimentel, he “never intended to breach any protocol but I realize now that my presence in […]

Up to 50 million Facebook accounts breached in attack

By Glenn Chapman Agence France Presse Facebook revealed on Friday that up to 50 million accounts were breached by hackers, dealing a blow to the social network’s effort to convince users to trust it with their data. The social network is investigating the extent of harm done when hackers exploited a trio of software flaws to steal “access tokens,” the equivalent of digital keys that enable people to automatically log back into the social network. […]

As Facebook scandal mushrooms, Zuckerberg vows to ‘step up’

by Glenn CHAPMAN / with Rob Lever in Washington and Robin Millard in London Agence France Presse SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg vowed Wednesday to “step up” to fix problems at the social media giant, as it fights a snowballing scandal over the hijacking of personal data from millions of its users. “We have a responsibility to protect your data, and if we can’t then we don’t deserve to serve […]

NPC: Uber PHL confirms data of Filipino users also compromised in breach late last year

(Eagle News) — The National Privacy Commission on Tuesday confirmed that data of Filipino Uber users were among the data stolen in a breach late last year. In a statement, the NPC said this was based on information provided by Uber Philippines on Monday, over a year after the hack was reportedly deliberately hidden from the public by Uber’s US office. Uber Philippines said it had no prior knowledge about the breach that saw “some […]

Smartmatic officials, tiniyak na hindi aalis ng bansa

(Eagle News) — Tiniyak ng Smartmatic na hindi aalis ng bansa ang mga opisyal nito habang isasagawa ng Commission on Elections (Comelec) ang kanilang imbestigasyon. Kaugnay ito ng breach of protocol ng Smartmatic dahil sa walang pahintulot na pagbago sa character ng script sa transparency server. Ayon kay Atty. Karen Jimeno, nakahanda aniyang humarap sa imbestigasyon ang kanilang mga tauhan bagaman muling iginiit ng kumpanya na nabago lamang ang character sa hash code nang ilagay […]