“The Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center … claimed that the system of poll technology provider Smartmatic has been compromised,” GMA News reports in the Philippines.
GMA cites the Cybercrime center’s executive director during a briefing of the Joint Congressional Oversight Committee on the Automated Election System in Manila.
The oversight committee discussed hacking of Commission on Elections data, but the the Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center does not believe there was hacking of the servers. Instead, “they have found out that the system of Smartmatic was breached.”
Among the agenda of the meeting was the alleged hacking of the data of the Commission on Elections.
The cybercrime center’s chief said “that there was no hacking on the Comelec [electoral commission] servers because they are offline. We agree to that at this time, and we have also found out that there was indeed a breach of the system as we have gathered from other sources.”
“On the contractor of the Comelec, the Smartmatic, we believe their system is compromised and that we are not also accusing them for doing it themselves at this moment,” he added.
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1. If the “breach of the system” was not due to hacking but to an internal compromise of the Smartmatic system, what does this mean for Smartmatic technology used in the United States?
2. If the government of the Philippines can detect these breaches and compromises, why can’t the government of the United States find them?
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