MANILA, Philippines — The national database containing 500,000 names barred from playing in casinos has been hacked, Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. (PAGCOR) chairman and CEO Alejandro Tengco revealed yesterday.
https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2025/09/04/2470332/pagcor-list-restricted-casino-players-hackedAnd it seems that the Philippines can't really get out of anything about gambling as it was reported that there were hacks in the PAGCOR database. Initially though it was reported that it's the players in every casino.
But now they said that those hack accounts are those who have been ban or requested for self-inclusion.
However, this is still a hack no matter how they try to cover what kind of data has been lost to the criminals.
I sincerely feel sorry for the gamblers who appear on this list, because their decision to self-prohibit is definitely confidential information, and it is bad if it becomes known to the entire Internet.
Unscrupulous casinos can use this to spam these people with ads by email. Because I know that bad casinos try to trigger former addicted gamblers.