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Comelec website still down a week before May 9 polls

Comelec website still down a week before May 9 polls

Rose Carmelle Lacuata,

ABS-CBN News

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MANILA - The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has yet to restore its website after it was hacked last March.

In a text message sent to ABS-CBN News, Comelec Spokesperson James Jimenez said they are still working on restoring the website.

"Yes, it is still down. We hope to have it up [by] the middle of this week, according to our IT department," he said.

While the website is down, registered voters who may want to look for their precincts and other pertinent voter information by calling the Comelec hotline at 525-9296, or texting 09185668301.

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They can also reach the poll body through its official Twitter and Facebook accounts.

Voters, likewise, can download ABS-CBN's Halalan2016 App, available both for Android and iOS users.

It could be recalled that the Comelec website was defaced by hackers from Anonymous Philippines on March 28, as the group lashed at the poll body for initially rejecting some of the security features of the automated polls.

"One of the processes by which people exercise their sovereignty is through voting in an election - where people choose the candidates who will best represent them under the principle that 'Public office is a public trust.'," the group said in its message.

The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has arrested two suspected hackers of the website.

Trend Micro, a global security software company, earlier said the personal data of 1.3 million overseas Filipino voters, including their passport information, as well as fingerprints of 15.8 million people were compromised in the hacking of the Comelec site.

It said the data dump "may turn out as the biggest government related data breach in history."

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