PHL buy-sell portal Sulit.com hacked
Visitors transacting with Philippine buy-and-sell web portal Sulit.com.ph may have to bear with some glitches, after the site was hacked Saturday. In posts on its Twitter account, Sulit.com.ph said the hackers hit its domain registry and changed the details of its account. "Someone hacked our account in our domain registry and changed the details of our domain http://Sulit.com.ph," it said in a Twitter post Saturday afternoon. A report on Newsbytes.ph said that for a time on Saturday, visitors were redirected to another buy-and-sell site. Sulit.com.ph said it initially made the necessary changes and had to wait for the correct domain information to propagate globally. Later in the day, the site explained it was hit with a "relatively simple attack." But it assured its users its data was safe, saying a third-party vendor was compromised. It said its data, application, and servers were unaffected. "We have already gotten in touch with the Dot.ph team and they are already doing an investigation about this incident," it said. Still, it advised visitors they may experience intermittent connections for the next 24 hours. As of 4 a.m. Sunday, the site appeared to be working normally. A separate article on Newsbytes.ph said the attack redirected Sulit.com.ph's domain name to another site. Quoting white hacker group Rootcon.org, it said the Sulit website was replaced by the homepage of Ayosdito.ph, another classified ads portal. It also quoted RJ David, the site’s co-founder and current managing director, as saying in an advisory that a group claiming to be Anonymous Iligan claimed responsibility for the incident. Newsbytes.ph said Sulit appealed to Dot.ph to have 24/7 support. “They are running a very critical single point of failure for all websites using the .PH domain,” it said. — LBG, GMA News