Guys, read the article. (It is a good read.) The hackers are able to access PC's starting with the phone hacking. Sounds like a very ugly episode when everything - bank accounts, Windows login, desktop wallets, etc. - all get seized in one swoop. Because phone companies still think of themselves as phone companies, and not as gatekeepers to people's financial and personal property on a vast scale. They can't keep screwing up like this.
If the evidence that this operation(s) is based in the Phillipines is right... well, the hackers might not be too happy once Duterte catches up with them. If he treats them like he does drug dealers, they will have a _very_ short life expectancy.
It seems they haven't caught any of these hacking groups yet. IMHO they should tighten immigration here in the Philippines. Most of the crime syndicates here are from abroad and using the laxity of immigration to set up crime rings here. Most of the drug manufacturers are from mainland China, most of the ATM hackers are from Bulgaria, etc...
It's really a troubling thought that they would simply get all your bitcoins because the telcos are not doing enough.