(CMFR/IFEX) – The website of a popular national journalists’ union, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP), which has been actively publishing statements against the recent government’s crackdown on media, was allegedly hacked by unknown parties during the first week of March 2006, resulting in its temporary shutdown. The NUJP website (http://www.nujp.org) could […]
(CMFR/IFEX) – The website of a popular national journalists’ union, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP), which has been actively publishing statements against the recent government’s crackdown on media, was allegedly hacked by unknown parties during the first week of March 2006, resulting in its temporary shutdown.
The NUJP website (http://www.nujp.org) could not be accessed practically the entire day of 1 March, after somebody apparently hacked into its database server and tried to delete or change files.
According to the NUJP’s web host, the hacker or hackers also illegally made too many connections to the database, preventing other users or readers from accessing the site.
NUJP expressed concern over what they claim is a covert attempt to stop them from publishing statements, manifestos, and updates condemning the latest crackdown by the government on the Philippine press.
