Massive ph data breach (COMLEC website)

The registered voters of the PI on Comelec website that got hacked by Anonymous Philippines. It's all over the internet.

 

Are you bagging on Filipino's? Someone with a brain and an internet connection could download the data and answer this question directly. And you would probably get more accomplished that way.

No ****. It's a database. The point of a database is that you are able to query it. If all the fields werre encrypted, then you couldn't query it. It would no longer be a database.

No it's not. The passwords are encrypted, but you can't read passwords anyways. It's a one-way encryption process and generally worthless as data. As long as the data can be displayed, it's not ecrypted. The hackers likely got this information by accessing the database as opposed to downloading a bunch of files from the server.

You could do key encryption so that certain items can be decrypted when it needs to be (information which doesn't need to be used as a possible query field) but as long as you have the keys to the server, then you probably have the means to display the info.

That there is actually encrypted info in this data means they probably just did a general dump. Spitting out all the data is a relatively cheap operation as that's what database software is designed for. Having the system decrypt data for this many records would be a much bigger job as you would probably need the content management system software to do the decryption.

So, yeah, identity fraud. In the U.S. that generally means credit cards. Good luck opening credit card accounts for Filipino's.

Phishing scams? You would have to friend them on Facebook first.

Generally not the most high value data.

Maybe I could use it to score some chick's phone numbers.