- A group of hackers allegedly attacked the official websites of Cotabato Province and Kidapawan City after the bloody dispersal of protesting farmers
- The websites were taken down on Saturday
- As of today, the websites are still inaccessible
A group of hackers allegedly took down the websites of the Cotabato Provincial government and Kidapawan City after the bloody dispersal of protesting farmers’ rally by policemen in Kidapawan City.
The violent dispersal resulted to the deaths of three farmers and wounding of several others. At least 5,000 farmers took to the streets to ask for food aid from the provincial government, but the police dispersed them; resulting to the bloody clash between the farmers and the police.
There was no direct admission from Anonymous Philippines that it was responsible for the hacking, but it posted the links of the two websites (http://kidapawancity.gov.ph/ http://cotabatoprov.gov.ph/) on its Facebook page.
Some netizens who commented on the group’s post said the two websites have become inaccessible due to DDOS attack.
Nestor Corrales wrote in his article for Inquirer dated April 2, 2016 that DDOS or distributed denial of service makes a computer or network unavailable to its users by hackers in control of several devices by flooding a server with more network traffic than it can handle.
ABS-CBN, in an article it published also on April 2, said that DDOS attack occurs when multiple systems overwhelm the bandwidth of an online service; thus barring the publication of and access to important information.
As of today, the two websites remain inaccessible.
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