A digital protection service provider in the Philippines has warned that fingerprint data may have been hacked during an intrusion on data in the country's electoral systems.Trend Micro said in a blog post that a recent hack leaked a massive cache of data from Comelec's databases-including voters' personal information.Comelec spokesperson James Jimenez assured the public that the automated system to be used in this year's election is secure, since it runs independently of the website.”Our research showed that massive records of personal identifiable information, including fingerprints data were leaked. Included in the data Comelec deemed public was a list of Comelec officials that have admin accounts,” Trend Micro said.The company said that the leaked data included 1.3 million records of overseas Filipino voters with passport numbers and expiry dates.”What is alarming is that this crucial data is just in plain text and accessible for everyone,” they said.Trend Micro's investigation also found that 15.8 million fingerprint records and lists of people running for office since the 2010 elections had been leaked.
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