THE Land Transportation Office (LTO) has yet to validate the supposed leak of 45,008 customer credentials and 8,442 employee data as posted on social media.
When asked, the agency remained mum and told the Manila Standard that “the information did not come from us.”
In a Facebook post of an information technology expert, allegations of a security breach of the agency’s Land Transportation Management System (LTMS) surfaced, citing a huge number of customer credentials and employee data could have possibly leaked, and that the Department of Information and Communications Technology “will be on top of this situation.”
A Facebook post of Deep Web Konek (DWK), said to be an alliance of cyberthreat intelligence advocates with over 11,000 followers, also cited that it had monitored an alleged data breach within the LTO in the past week.
“Yesterday, a user reported a breach in LTO with a sample from one of their regional offices. There were two reports within this week sent to DWK. The other 34 gigabytes (GB) of data was compromised, which the team is still waiting for samples for checking,” the post read.