An official of the Department of Education (DepEd) on Wednesday, Jan. 12, confirmed that the website of the agency was subjected to a cyber attack over the weekend. (Image courtesy of DepEd Undersecretary Alain Pascua) The said hacking of the DepEd website happened on Sunday, Jan. 9, Education...
The camp of presidential aspirant Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. has called on the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to investigate the reported hacking of its servers and to ensure the integrity of its system and the upcoming elections. In a statement Tuesday, Jan. 11, Marcos Jr.s' spokesman,...
Sensitive voter information may have been compromised after a group of hackers was allegedly able to breach the servers of the Commission on Elections (Comelec), downloading more than 60 gigabytes of data that could possibly affect the May 2022 elections. Comelec logo (Photo from Wikipedia) This...
The official Twitter account of the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) was hacked on Sunday midnight, Nov. 14, putting a spotlight on mounting concerns about the vulnerability of government agencies to such attacks and their ability to respond immediately. Office of Civil Defense The OCD’s verified...
Actress-TV host Iya Villania is the latest celebrity victimized by hackers. The Kapuso artist recently informed her followers that her Facebook account was hacked. On Instagram, she wrote: "HACKED!!! (loudly crying face emojis)," along with a screenshot of her Facebook profile which has more than 8...
Julia Barretto's Twitter account is now "Zicking." Now, we don't know what it means either but it's not as if the actress is trying to confuse us. It's not Julia's fault. Her Twitter account was hacked. She said so, herself. Since then, the hacker has taken great liberty changing the account's...
EDITORS DESK The National Privacy Commission is “currently validating information that says 879,699 Facebook accounts of Filipino netizens have allegedly been compromised.” They are part of the large-scale breach affecting 533 million global users of Facebook in 2019. A statement from the...
Glaiza de Castro Glaiza de Castro couldn't help but express disappointment over the "stress" that her "hacked" credit card has been given her. The newly-engaged star even called out the said bank on her Twitter account. "Una, na hack ang IG, tapos Facebook, tapos credit card. Hay....
