THIS is ordinarily not a topic I would concern myself with, but the near-complete lack of reporting on it, which, in this case, is a grave public disservice, warrants an exception.

On February 20, a cybersecurity researcher working with an organization called vpnMonitor discovered a large-scale breach in the cloud database for the Department of Education's (DepEd) Online Voucher Application Program (OVAP), which it administers jointly with the Private Education Assistance Committee (PEAC). The researcher, Jeremiah Fowler, said the nonpassword database contained 210,020 records with a total size of about 154 gigabytes (GB). He said it was unclear who was responsible for the ownership and management of the database, who may have accessed it, or how long it may have been exposed.