Senate website hacked – DICT

MANILA, Philippines — A hacker group named “Death Note Hackers” infiltrated the Senate’s website and extracted employees’ usernames and logs, the Department of Information and Communications Technology said yesterday.

But the DICT said the incident should not cause alarm.

In a statement, Senate spokesman Arnel Jose Bañas said the usernames and logs supposedly extracted from the Senate Sharepoint site are merely the accounts used for uploading public documents.

“The logs include basic metadata, such as the upload date and file size, which do not pose security risks,” Bañas said.

He said access was gained over documents such as transcripts of committee hearings, journals of plenary sessions and other legislative documents that are intended for public consumption.

“But no sensitive or confidential data was affected,” Bañas said.

The Senate will continue efforts to ensure that its website remains protected by robust cybersecurity measures, he said.

Cybersecurity group Deep Web Konek earlier reported that the group breached the Senate’s information technology system.