PhilID safe from PSA data breach

The Philippine Statistics Authority on Thursday revealed that the breach of its database had exposed the financial information of people from poor communities being tracked by its Community-Based Monitoring System, or CBMS. PSA data protection officer Atty. Eliezer Ambatali, in a television interview, however, said the CBMS holds confidential demographic data that is "not extensive." The PSA admitted the data breach this week after an alleged hacker claimed on social media that the agency's system had been compromised. The state-run statistics bureau said the data breach had a limited impact, primarily affecting a specific section of its database, specifically the CBMS. "We are confident that this attack will not affect the (Philippine Identification System or PhilSys), the National ID and the civil registration databases. These databases and all other databases that (are) connected...