{"id":1208211,"date":"2022-01-11T13:35:02","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T18:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1208211"},"modified":"2022-01-11T13:35:06","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T18:35:06","slug":"philippines-election-commission-investigates-claim-server-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/philippines-election-commission-investigates-claim-server-hacked\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippines Election Commission Investigates Claim &#039;Server Hacked&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fphilippines-election-commission-investigates-claim-server-hacked%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1208211&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">The Philippines\u2019 Commission on Elections (COMELEC) said Monday it was <a href=\"https:\/\/ph.news.yahoo.com\/comelec-probes-alleged-hack-says-info-stolen-does-not-exist-210001890.html\">investigating<\/a> an allegation its server was \u201chacked\u201d after the <em>Manila Bulletin<\/em>&nbsp;published an article making the claim earlier that same day, Yahoo News Philippines reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe COMELEC is presently validating the allegations of the article published by the <em>Manila Bulletin<\/em>, specifically whether COMELEC systems have, in fact, been compromised,\u201d the commission\u2019s spokesman, James Jimenez, wrote in a statement issued on January 10.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>COMELEC enforces all laws and regulations related to Philippine elections. The Philippines is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/01\/04\/coronavirus-pandemic-freezes-philippines-presidential-election\/\">scheduled<\/a> to hold a general election on May 9 for executive and legislative branches of the country\u2019s government. The <em>Manila Bulletin,<\/em>&nbsp;the Philippines\u2019 second-oldest newspaper, <a href=\"https:\/\/mb.com.ph\/2022\/01\/10\/comelec-servers-hacked-downloaded-data-may-include-information-that-could-affect-2022-elections\/\">published<\/a> an article on January 10 claiming&nbsp;COMELEC\u2019s server was hacked on January 8 in a security breach that \u201ccompromised sensitive voter information,\u201d adding the alleged hacking \u201ccould possibly affect the May 2022 elections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Manila Bulletin<\/em>\u2018s \u201cTechnews\u201d team said it received a tip from an unidentified person on Saturday who claimed a group of cyber hackers successfully breached COMELEC\u2019s server on January 8, downloading \u201cmore than 60 gigabytes of data\u201d including files containing \u201cusernames and PINS of vote-counting machines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper\u2019s tech team said the alleged cyberattack further compromised other files such as \u201cnetwork diagrams, IP addresses, list of all privileged users, domain admin credentials, list of all passwords and domain policies, access to the ballot handling dashboard, and QR code captures of the bureau of canvassers with login and password [sic].\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_19441722\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1236900916.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19441722\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1236900916-1024x682-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"659\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Supporters of Philippine senator and presidential candidate Bong Go (pictured on placards) hold a rally in front of the commission on elections office in Manila, on the final day for candidates to file for the presidential and vice presidential races in 2022. (TED ALJIBE\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cSensitive data downloaded also included list of overseas absentee voters, location of all voting precincts with details of board of canvassers, all configuration list of the database, and list of all user accounts of Comelec personnel [sic],\u201d the <em>Manila Bulletin<\/em> wrote.<\/p>\n<p>COMELEC spokesman Jimenez challenged the newspaper\u2019s specific claim it had \u201cverified\u201d the alleged hacking incident in a press release issued January 10.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith no independent verification that a hack has indeed taken place, one thing immediately stands out: the article alleged that the hackers were able to \u2018download files that included, among others, usernames and PINs of vote-counting machines (VCM),&#8217;\u201d Jimenez wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuch information still does not exist in COMELEC systems simply because the configuration files \u2014 which includes usernames and PINs \u2014 have not yet been completed,\u201d he revealed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease note that the article offers scant substantiation for its assertions despite claiming that the authors had \u2018verified that there was an ongoing hack,&#8217;\u201d the COMELEC mouthpiece added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndeed, the article does not even offer proof of such verification,\u201d Jimenez observed.<\/p>\n<p>COMELEC\u2019s spokesman urged the authors of the <em>Manila Bulletin<\/em> article in question to provide evidence for their assertions while assuring the Philippine public of its \u201cfull and scrupulous compliance\u201d with the Philippine Data Privacy Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philippines\u2019 Commission on Elections (COMELEC) said Monday it was investigating an allegation its server was \u201chacked\u201d after the Manila Bulletin\u00a0published an article making the claim earlier that same day, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1208211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1208211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1208211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1208211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1208211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}