JOJO ROBLES

A LITTLE more than a month before the May 9, 2016 national elections, hackers broke into the database of the Commission on Elections and dumped the personal data of millions of Filipino voters on the Internet. “ComeLeak,” as the biggest-ever private data leak in the country came to be known, was supposedly pulled off by homegrown hackers belonging to Anonymous Philippines and Lulzsec Pilipinas, in order to highlight the lack of security measures in place to protect the voters’ data collected by the Comelec.

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