Palace on alleged leakage of PNoy phone numbers: He's very accessible

Published June 17, 2013 10:51am

A day after President Benigno Aquino III’s supposed mobile phone numbers were posted online, Malacañang on Sunday refused to comment on the hacker’s claim of having gained access to the information and said the country's chief executive has always been easily accessible to the media.

“I don’t have a lot of information on that apart from the fact we don’t want to dignify that particular allegation with a comment,” deputy presidential spokesperson Abigail Valte said on government-run dzRB radio, when asked about the supposed breach into his security.

She said many journalists are aware that the President is easy to contact, "lalo na (sa) matagal nagco-cover sa Pangulong Aquino lalo noong congressman siya ng Tarlac, accessible ang Pangulo at hindi mahirap makipag-usap sa kanya.”

Aquino served as a congressman for three terms before winning a seat in the Senate in 2007, and getting elected as President in 2010.

On Saturday, a hacker posted on Twitter and Facebook what he/she claimed to be Aquino’s phone numbers, but subsequent reports said no one answered the numbers when they were dialed.

When asked if the numbers posted by the hacker are indeed Aquino’s, Valte would only say, “I cannot comment at this time.” — TJD/YA, GMA News

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