345,000 sensitive legal documents from the PH government have been exposed online

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345,000 sensitive legal documents from the PH government have been exposed online
May 1, 2021
https://www.rappler.com/nation/sens...hilippine-government-have-been-exposed-online

For at least two months, some 345,000 sensitive court documents from the Office of the Solicitor General of the Philippines related to ongoing legal cases were made publicly available online and could have been accessed by anyone who knew where to look, according to the UK security company TurgenSec, which identified the data exposure.

“It’s not like a traditional data breach that we disclose,” said a spokesperson for TurgenSec. “This one caught our eye because it seems that it might have broader ramifications.”
The spokesperson said they worried that information in the documents could affect ongoing court cases and might be used to identify witnesses or attempt to intimidate victims.
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It’s not clear why the Philippine Solicitor General’s office and Department of Justice did not respond to TurgenSec, or why the documents were made private only recently. Rest of World reached out to the Philippine Department of Justice, which acknowledged the message but did not comment in time for publication. The website for the Solicitor General’s office was also hacked last December.

According to the TurgenSec spokesperson, the data wound up on the open web because of a misconfigured server, or when an administrator accidentally sets a set of documents to “public” rather than “private.”
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