Hacker posts on Facebook Aquino’s ‘mobile numbers’

A Filipino hacker has posted online what he claimed to be President Benigno Aquino’s personal mobile telephone numbers, with Palace spokesman Saturday denouncing the act as “cyber vandalism”.

A Filipino hacker has posted online what he claimed to be President Benigno Aquino’s personal mobile telephone numbers, with Palace spokesman Saturday denouncing the act as “cyber vandalism”.

“Hacktivists” struck again on Tuesday, the day of hearing oral arguments in the Supreme Court for Republic Act No. 10175, or the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012, a law that protesters say threatens freedom of speech.

Several government websites, including that of the National Food Authority, were defaced early Monday by the “hacktivist” group Anonymous Philippines, drawing attention to the cybercrime law.

Even the website of election watchdog Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV), which is certainly not a government group, was not spared by hackers protesting the new cybercrime law.

Like the biblical Noah who rode out the Great Flood, this Noah also emerged unscathed.

Threats to hack web sites of government agencies by a group with an international affiliation have become a matter of national security, according to the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) lead agent assigned to the probe.

The National Bureau of Investigation is investigating members of Anonymous Philippines, a group that has claimed on its Facebook account that it hacked the website of the NBI and those of other agencies.

The Philippine National Police is investigating who are behind the hactivist group Anonymous Philippines, which launched a series of attacks on mostly government websites to protest the cybercrime law.

Several government, civil society and other private websites were defaced Wednesday night by an unidentified hacker calling itself “Anonymous Philippines” in protest of the recently enacted anti-cybercrime law.

At least two government websites were defaced Wednesday night by an unidentified hacker calling itself “Anonymous Philippines” in protest of a recently enacted anti-cybercrime law.