Manila court clears hacker of poll website

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 10:14:48 +0000

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A Manila Regional Trial Court has dismissed the cybercrime charges filed against Paul Biteng, who was accused of hacking the Commission on Elections website and leaking data in 2016.

Presiding Judge Thelma Bunyi-Medina of the Manila RTC Branch 32 acquitted Biteng of charges for violating Republic Act 10175 or the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 after the prosecution failed to categorically link him as the perpetrator for the crimes charged.

In 2016, Biteng, a security engineer and an Information Technology graduate, was tagged in the “Comeleak” incident in which the Comelec website was hacked and defaced and voters’ data was leaked.

Operatives from the National Bureau of Investigation linked him to the incident after seeing his name in one of the hacking video tutorials of a certain Ph
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