‘No evidence of data breach’


Smooth operation: People wearing face masks taking part in a simulation for the 2022 Philippine election at a polling station in Metro Manila. — Reuters

The election agency said it had tapped law enforcers and information security experts to look into a news report that said hackers had compromised its systems, but insisted no data beach had occurred.

The Manila Bulletin newspaper on Monday reported a suspected breach on election servers and that hackers allegedly accessed and downloaded an estimated 60 gigabytes of data, that included “usernames and PINs of vote-counting machines”.

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