Hackers launched a series of New Year's day attacks that
temporarily shut down several Philippine government websites including the
office of the vice-president, officials said Monday.
Vice President Jejomar Binay
said hackers calling themselves the PrivateX group brought down his official
website for 15 hours Sunday and denied access to mostly migrant Filipinos
checking on his office's activities.
The website provides
information on the programmes, projects and services of his office, which also
serves as a portal for country's more than nine million overseas workers to air
their concerns and grievances.
"On January 1, 2012 at
about 4 p.m., the official website of the Office of the Vice President was
hacked by the PrivateX group, which caused the site to be down by more than 15
hours," Binay said in a statement.
He said his website was hosted
by the state-run Advanced Science and Techology Institute (ASTI) which had
already launched an investigation into the incident.
"We have been informed
that ASTI is looking into the incident and will put in place the needed
safeguards," he said.
The same group had also defaced
the websites of the Philippine Nuclear Research Institute, the anti-piracy Optical
Media Board and two others run by small government agencies.
Little is known about the
PrivateX group, but in a message it left on the defaced websites, which Binay's
office had taken down, it said its purpose was to show how vulnerable
Philippine websites were to such attacks.
The emphasis of its attacks was
to call out "the government's action toward cyber security."
"We are anonymous. We are
legion, we don't forgive. We don't forget. United as one, divided by zero.
Expect us," the statement said.
AFP
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