MANILA, Philippines — The National Bureau of Investigation on Friday announced that the alleged mastermind of hacking the official website of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) may face an additional complaint.
Paul Biteng, a 23-year-old information technology graduate, was earlier arrested by the NBI and was placed under inquest proceedings before the Manila Prosecutor's Office.
READ: IT grad, 23, arrested for Comelec website hack
The suspect was charged for violating Section 4A-1 of the Cybercrime Prevention Act for "illegal access to the whole or any part of a computer system without right."
NBI Cybersecurity Division Chief Ronald Aguto said that an additional complaint may be filed once the forensic examination on the computer of Biteng has finished.
The NBI is set to check the activities of the suspect on his personal computer before, during and after the hacking.
Meanwhile, a group of hackers launched a website where data of Filipino voters may be searched and downloaded.
The Comelec, however, has announced that the website had been taken down with the help of the United States Department of Justice.
"DOJ [is] currently in the process of requesting for the preserved data on Cloudflare and GoDaddy, through official channels, [and] coordinating with NBI," Comelec Spokesperson James Jimenez said in a statement via Twitter.
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Article source: http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2016/04/22/1575666/nbi-comelec-hacker-may-face-additional-complaint
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