Officials of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) are ready to face whatever complaint or lawsuit that may be filed against them following the breach of the poll body’s database system by hackers. “We will face whatever case that will be filed against us,” Comelec Chairman Andres Bautista said in a radio interview yesterday. “If they want to file an impeachment complaint against us, that is their right as citizens,” he said, adding that he’s not the kind of person who clings to position. “What we are doing here is not easy…we do our best for us to have credible elections. That is our goal,” he said. A few weeks before the May 9 elections, the poll body suffered a major cyber-attack, with voters’ records stolen by hackers. The stolen personal information of 56 million voters were reportedly put on display on a website last Thursday. The site allowed users to [...]
