The National Privacy Commission said it employed legitimate hackers to search the dark web and check potential threat to Filipinos.
NPC commissioner Raymund Liboro said the agency enlisted the support of legitimate hackers to help search for illegally acquired data, particularly for ongoing cases.
“The whole information team is about seven people. I think four of them are legitimate hackers. Some of them have directly applied for that particular job specification,” he said.
He cited the case of the Uber breach in the US where the commission had to confirm if the personal data of some 47,000 Filipinos were uploaded to the web or were illegally used.
The IT team is tasked to monitor and scour the dark web for data that may afflict the Philippines and Filipinos. “If the information we are looking or verifying is found on the dark web, this means that the information was not contained. Then we’ll take the necessary actions,” Liboro said.