Marina comes under cyberattack

Marina comes under cyberattack

(UPDATE) THE Maritime Industry Authority (Marina) confirmed on Monday that four of its web-based systems were attacked and compromised on Sunday.

Marina's Information Technology team is being assisted by the Department of Information and Communications Technology-Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center (DICT-CICC) in investigating the data breach and restoring the systems' ability to receive and process applications by today, June 18.

Joseph Victor Generato, chief of Marina's Management Information and Systems Service, said personnel from the CICC led by Undersecretary Alexander Ramos were doing the repairs and determining the extent of the data breach.

Generato said it was the first time Marina had come under a cyberattack.

He assured that the seafarers' data were not affected.

"Marina is doing everything it can to fix this problem in the shortest possible time," Generato said.

WITH PNA