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It seems that the hacking of Commission on Elections (COMELEC) website is more concerning that we initially thought.

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Just last month, COMELEC’s website was defaced by a group of hackers and has called for their attention to speak out about the upcoming national elections. Afterwards, another group has leaked COMELEC’s entire database online which is considered as the biggest breach of any government data comprising personal information of 55 million registered voters according to a report by Trend Micro.

Although the election governing body claimed that there is no sensitive data involved, Trend Micro’s research says otherwise. They revealed that OFW’s passport details are exposed to the public for easy access plus 15.8 million of fingerprints and list of people dating back to the 2010 elections. What’s alarming is they are just stored in plain text files without any encryption or security.

This information could be used for fraud, phishing, blackmail, and even extortion. You may read about the full report here.

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Anonymous PH members have successfully defaced the Commission of Elections website, and in turn, extracting data from it.

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This comes after a call from the local hacktivist’s of a more transparent election system through implementation of the security features on the Precinct Count Optical Scanner (PCOS) machines that will be used in the upcoming May 9 elections.

“One of the processes by which people exercise their sovereignty is through voting in an election- where people choose the candidates who will best represent them, who will serve them under the principle that “Public office is a public trust.” But what happens when the electoral process is so mired with questions and controversies? Can the government still guarantee that the sovereignty of the people is upheld?” said the group on their Facebook Page.

Along with the defacement, Lulzsec Pilipinas have also managed to obtain the whole database coming from the website. COMELEC’s web address remains inaccessible as of the moment.

More as we get it.

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