Philippine Government Websites Hacked on June 12 (Independence Day)

Some of the Government websites was hacked on Independence day, reported at ABS CBN website.

Office of the Vice President's website

MANILA, Philippines - Filipino hackers struck on Independence Day Tuesday.

Several Philippine government websites were defaced, with visitors of the websites redirected to a new Internet address set up by a group calling itself "Private X." The same group earlier claimed responsibility for previous hacking attacks on Philippine and Chinese government websites. The websites affected Tuesday include the Office of the Vice-President.

The other affected websites and webpages are :

http://www.doj.gov.ph/?page=news&newsid=114
http://www.doj.gov.ph/gallery_photos.php?aid=RE9KIGluIEFjdGlvbg%3D%3D
http://www.pia.gov.ph/
http://www.pnri.dost.gov.ph/
http://www.nfa.gov.ph/
http://www.set.gov.ph/
http://www.smokefree.doh.gov.ph/
http://mandaluyong.gov.ph/
http://www.omb.gov.ph/
http://www.papt.org.ph/

The hackers said they are protesting the Philippine Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012.

"In the light of our past resorts, our organization stood still with its goal of proclaiming security in Philippine's cyber culture and in the midst of the events, we have witnessed the efforts of our good authority into constituting a cyber bill, in which as we have observed has good intentions, but a little loopholes over some matters," the message posted on the defaced websites said.

"In such instances, the said bill could evenly be more considered as an exercise for the benefit of a few empowered who have the way and will to punish people who offend them, and could also be a potential threat to the freedom of expression since it can be used as a tool of censorship, and moreover it can greatly be used in the near future to condone further implementations of worse forms of censorship," it added.

"We're not against the government's intention to combat fraudulence, related forms of it and other serious cyber crimes, but we're absolutely against its provision that has something to do with the internet's freedom of expression," the hackers said.

"We're hoping for the recuperation of the bill in the implied points and evenly looking forward for its success towards the resurgence of the philippine cyber-culture and the betterment of it," they added.

The hackers said they did not either steal or destroy data from the affected websites.

"Our ethics prohibits those kinds of acts and our only intention is to deliver our protest. May this mass defacement serves as a reminder, and is a spark for all of us to do such changes. Happy Independence Day," they said.

Government agencies have yet to issue a statement regarding the mass defacement attack.

Source: ABS CBN News at http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/06/12/12/govt-websites-hacked-independence-day

Jojo Malig @ ABS-CBNNews.Com

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