Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, December 6) — The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) on Wednesday said it is still determining the suspects behind the hacking of its Facebook page where lewd photos were posted.
“The investigation on the reason on how, why and who are responsible for this is being undertaken. Wala pa rin tayong malinaw doon (There’s nothing clear yet),” said PCSO general manager Mel Robles in an interview with CNN Philippines.
Robles said there is no important data in PCSO’s social media account that would interest hackers.
“But now we are certain it was a hacking incident and that we want to know why because there is no data that you can gain from the Facebook page,” he added.
The PCSO was able to retrieve its Facebook account on Wednesday morning with the help of the Department of Information and Communications Technology and Meta Philippines, the company behind the social media giant.
The PCSO executive, assuring the lotto games were unaffected by the hacking incident, said the agency will bolster its security measures online to avoid the incident from happening again.
“We’re trying to limit the administrators, we’re trying to limit it to one or two na lang,\” said Robles.
\”And that we use dedicated devices para di na magamit ng iba,\” he added. “And using our own wifi kasi baka magkaapekto rin if you’re using a public WiFi.”
