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1:44 pm | Saturday, October 6th, 2012

MANILA, PhilippinesInternational hacking group Anonymous early Saturday morning leaked two social marketing plans supposedly obtained from Malacaang.

Two spread sheet files were made available via Twitter by the hacktivist group detailing the work and financial plan of an unspecified Philippine government unit. The documents were approved by a certain Ana Marie P. Daep.

The tweet of Anonymous announcing the leak mentioned President Benigno Aquinos official website president.gov.ph, but did not say if the documents were obtained from there.

Malacaang told INQUIRER.net it was not aware of any official documents obtained and leaked by Anonymous.

Palace unaware of leaked government plans

Hacktivists have been attacking mostly government sites since Aquino signed into law the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012. People in the social media and the Internet press condemn the passage of the law, saying it will severely curb Internet freedoms and intimidate netizens into self-censorship.

Aquino defended the cybercrime act, specifically backing one of the most controversial elements of the law, which mandates that people who post defamatory comments online be given much longer jail sentences than those who commit libel in traditional media.

I do not agree that it (the provision on libel) should be removed. If you say something libellous through the Internet, then it is still libellous no matter what the format, Aquino told reporters Friday.

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