Hacktivists deface Eat Bulaga, BOC sites before cybercrime law hearings

Just hours before the Supreme Court begins hearings on the Anti-Cybercrime Act of 2012, hacktivists defaced the Bureau of Customs' website as well as that of popular noontime show "Eat Bulaga". Visitors to the “About” section of the "Eat Bulaga" site were greeted with a blank page with the message "u r alone". PrivateX, which publicized the hack on its Twitter account, did not make clear if the attack were due to Senate majority leader Vicente Sotto III being a host of the program. Sotto's website, titosotto.com, had been defaced last Jan. 8 by Anonymous Philippines. Sotto had been criticized for introducing a provision on online libel into the law. "And you shall not see us rest until R.A. 10175 is revised ... We are all waiting, we are all ready," the hackers said. Meanwhile, visitors to the the Customs Bureau's URL were greeted with a message from Anonymous Philippines. The message criticizing the Anti-Cybercrime Law was similar to those posted on government sites hacked on Monday. "What happened to the law? Are all laws meant to be broken? Are they made to fool people, deprive them of their rights in exchange of what we believe as 'Heavens for Politicians'? Some say we are against the law because it would hinder our 'criminal activities' but WE do not oppose the said law in any way if it is for the greater good," they said in their message on the hacked Customs page. — DVM/TJD, GMA News