Thousands of Filipinos took to the streets over the weekend to demand accountability in government infrastructure spending, with their calls for transparency and reform echoed online by hacktivist groups that defaced nearly 20 government websites in a show of digital protest.
Philippine-based group Deathnote Hackers International has claimed to have breached a subdomain of the eGov PH website related to its E-Local Government Unit (eLGU) component through an upload vulnerability.
Acer Philippines acknowledged that a security incident happened involving its third-party vendor managing employee attendance data. It assured the public that no breach or leak of any customer data occurred, and that customer data remains unaffected by the incident and are secure.