the congresswoman Norma Yarrowfrom the Avanza País bench, sent a letter to the Secretary of Government and Digital Transformation of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers (PCM), Marushka Chocobar, to appear before a commission of the Legislative Power and explain the leak of personal data from public entities.
The document summons the official to appear on Tuesday, May 24 at 4 pm to report on the data leak complaint and the measures that her office has taken in this regard.
“The Association of Banks of Peru (Asbanc) would have alerted the Presidency of the Council of Ministers of this fact without obtaining a response from the leak”the congresswoman points out in the official letter.
As he explains, the information would include personal data such as date of birth, address, telephone number, family data, bank information, employment status, fingerprint image and “even the model, make and color of your vehicle.”
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Asbanc denounced data leak
The leak of personal data of citizens that Asbanc alerted was addressed “immediately” in the form of a statement sent to all public entities and the deactivation of web pages suspected of fraud, according to the Presidency of the Council of Ministers (PCM) .
A statement published this Friday, May 20 details that the Executive acted immediately and preventively in the face of a “digital security breach” in an autonomous body, thus deactivating the suspicious web portals.
An alert was also generated by sending a statement from the National Center for Digital Security to all public entities.
Official explained actions
The secretary of government and digital transformation of the PCM, Marushka Chocobar, assured this Friday in statements to RPP that the authorities have initiated the sanctioning process against those who are responsible for the data leak revealed by Asbanc.
“We have sent the reports to the corresponding authorities such as the Divindat of the Ministry of the Interior. In fact, the Ministry of Justice has ruled and has initiated the sanctioning process against those who are responsible, but that is still under investigation”he assured, and then explained the reasons why public opinion was not informed about the event before.
“What has happened is still under investigation, a possible digital security vulnerability resulting in a data leak that has been disclosed. When we learned of this situation, we proceeded to mitigate the impact and noticed the fraudulent pages and deactivated them. When a digital security risk is known, it must first be verified and then inform the public”accurate.
