NEWS | A hacker using the handle core849 claims to have stolen more than 16 million records from LTFRB, though the agency has not confirmed anything. This comes just weeks after a separate group, Quantum Security Group, made a similar claim back in August. Neither claim has been independently verified, but two separate groups pointing at the same agency within weeks of each other is hard to just call a coincidence.
The data allegedly taken includes employee records, vehicle and franchise details, and payment information. If accurate, that means personal information tied to thousands of Filipinos may currently be exposed with no public confirmation either way.
BMN sees the repetition here as the real story, not just one claim, but a pattern. Government offices getting hit with breach claims isn't new, what's rarer is actually finding out afterward what was true, what was fixed, and what actually happened to the people whose data was involved.
That silence matters most for the people who never signed up to have their information sitting exposed based on a claim nobody has bothered to confirm or deny.
Why does it always take a hacker's word for the public to start asking how safe our data actually is with the people meant to protect it?
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