THE Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) said that they will be able to lend their expertise in investigating the World Health Organization (WHO) supposed breach of its database.

Reports said that the leak compromised some COVID-19 vaccination data that came from the Philippines and India.

DICT spokesperson Assistant Secretary Renato Paraiso, revealed that the data leak was actually discovered by the Philippine National Computer Agency Response Team.

“There was information dumped on particular platforms. That’s why we got wind of the incident regarding the WHO breach. They were able to obtain some COVID-19 data, particularly from two countries,” he said.

Likewise, Paraiso noted that the data breach extent has yet to be cleared since they don’t have access to the WHO’s records.

“The problem with this is it’s an international agency that we have no jurisdiction over. We informed them but it would be up to them if they would request the DICT or the Philippine government (to) help in the investigation. If they do not request us to participate, we cannot ask them for their logs and do a deep dive into their systems to ascertain what went wrong, what data were captured,” Paraiso noted.

According to Paraiso, the Department of Health (DOH) is also trying to coordinate with the WHO for the possible interventions.

“The Department of Health is currently in close coordination with the World Health Organization and the Department of Information and Communications Technology to ascertain the veracity of this report as well as to determine the extent of any possible data breaches and the appropriate interventions, should there be any,” said Health Secretary Ted Herbosa.