The group, which claims to be interested in promoting greater information security in the country, hacked into the OVP’s website only hours after hacking into the website of the PNRI, which oversees the country’s nuclear power industry, according to a report by GMA News.
On the OVP website, the hackers embedded a video clip of an interview with an OVP spokesman denying that the website had been hacked by PrivateX in July 2011.
"Months had passed when we first wired our sentiments and growing passion of concern to intensify the information security here in the Philippines. Occupants of the west are still on the move and in no time Manila will be the center of unethical activities in Asia. For some reasons that [are] untold, they choose the Philippines to organize a legion that will nullify the entire Philippine cyberspace", the group said in a message on the defaced OVP website.
The OVP was able to take down the video, but its site was offline for more than 15 hours. “The website of the OVP is being hosted by the Advanced Science and Technology Institute (ASTI), an agency under the Department of Science and Technology (DOST). We have been informed that ASTI is looking into the incident and will put in place the needed safeguards”, the OVP said in a statement.
For the PNRI attack, the hackers redirected website visitors to a page containing the aforementioned message about the need for greater information security in the Philippines.