By the standards of the scandal-plagued Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth), P17 million is a paltry sum. That is the peso value of the $300,000 demand of the 'Medusa' ransomware group in exchange for not leaking the PhilHealth data it stole over a week ago, in an attack that has crippled our national health insurer's online systems until yesterday. But the irony is that paying off the ransom would probably cost our taxpayers less than letting PhilHealth management run our universal health-care system to the ground, given its 'incompetence and lack of accountable leadership,' as its own union describes it.

https://opinion.inquirer.net/166734/philhealths-crisis-of-its-own-making

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