Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, September 28) — The daily website operations of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) will likely be back to normal within Thursday, its chief Emmanuel Ledesma Jr. said following the Medusa ransomware attack.
\”I think it’s very most likely that within the day, the daily operations will be back to normal,\” Ledesma said during the Senate deliberations of the proposed 2024 budget of the Department of Health and its attached agencies.
The PhilHealth Information Technology group said it turned off all of its systems starting Sept. 22 and have not yet turned them on.
Due to the hacking, all of PhilHealth’s transactions were conducted offline. The agency said it has resumed operations like membership, submissions, and payments, through over the counter transactions.
\”We are working very very closely with the DICT, we are coordinating with them 24/7 and they are assisting us fully on this,\” Ledesma said.
In a statement also on Thursday, the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) said it will continue to probe the acquired logs from PhilHealth’s affected systems.
\”The DICT condemns the ransomware attack carried out against PhilHealth in an attempt to illegally access the information of its members,\” it sad in a statement. \”We shall continue to investigate and monitor the acquired logs from PhilHealth’s affected systems. An extensive checklist has been prepared by the DICT to benchmark PhilHealth’s readiness to get their systems online.\”.
