MALACAÑANG said Saturday that IT experts are now looking into the possibility of “malicious forgery” on the hacking of Commission on Elections (Comelec) website, following the reported breach in the Palace's security protocols.

The Comelec voters’ database was hacked and made accessible online last week – and one of the “seeders” or distributors of the file was allegedly “mail.malacanang.gov.ph,” which is Malacañang (Presidential Palace)’s mail server address.

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