A group of as-yet unidentified hackers has taken the allegedly stolen Commission on Elections data and re-posted it on Thursday, April 21, as a searchable database on an independent site.
The site was put on the same day the National Bureau of Investigation arrested a person who was one of those allegedly involved in the recent defacement and supposed leakage of data from the Comelec website.
The site allows a user to gain access to a person’s basic personal data by just keying in his or her name.
In a statement, Comelec spokesman James Jimenez said the NBI is already investigating what he called the “hacker website.”
He called on the public not to use the site.
“In the meantime that [the NBI investigators] have not furnished us a copy of their findings, we advise the public not to use the hacker website as it can be used by the hackers to steal your information and thus expose you even further to the dangers of identity theft,” Jimenez said. For the full article click here
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