Cybersecurity
Philippines Foreign Chief Says No Passport Data Breach After All
- State-owned printing agency has the data, not stolen: Locsin
- Senate urged to investigate if passport data were corrupted
Teodoro Locsin
Photographer: Ben Stansall/AFP via Getty Images
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Philippine passport data were not stolen, according to the Department of Foreign Affairs, days after the secretary said that a disgruntled contractor made off with information and documents held by the agency.
Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin said he got word from the government printer APO Production Unit Inc., that passport data remain accessible and were not taken by the contractor as he wrote on Twitter last week.