{"id":123248,"date":"2017-10-12T04:09:30","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T08:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=123248"},"modified":"2017-10-12T04:09:30","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T08:09:30","slug":"senate-minority-alarmed-over-email-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/12\/senate-minority-alarmed-over-email-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate minority alarmed over email breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_122843\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-122843\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/minority-bloc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-122843\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/minority-bloc.jpg\" alt=\"FILE: \u201cThese incidents seem to form part of a pattern to pin the political opposition for imaginary destabilization attempts. These are cause for concern as Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre spearheaded the creation of the Citizen National Guard, which says that dissent is destabilization,\u201d it added. (Photo: Senate of the Philippines\/Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/minority-bloc.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/minority-bloc-300x148.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/minority-bloc-768x380.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-122843\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: \u201cThese incidents seem to form part of a pattern to pin the political opposition for imaginary destabilization attempts. These are cause for concern as Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre spearheaded the creation of the Citizen National Guard, which says that dissent is destabilization,\u201d it added. (Photo: Senate of the Philippines\/Facebook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Opposition senators on Thursday said they are \u201cseriously concerned\u201d about the hacking incidents on the email addresses of the staff of Sen. Kiko Pangilinan and Sen. Bam Aquino as these &#8220;seem to form part of a pattern to pin the political opposition for imaginary destabilization attempts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the Senate minority also said the official email addresses for releasing media statements of Pangilinan and the liberal party were also hacked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe in the political opposition are seriously concerned about several hacking incidents concerning the email addresses of our staff from the offices of Senators Kiko Pangilinan and Bam Aquino, and just now the official email addresses for releasing media statements of Sen. Pangilinan and the Liberal Party,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are cause for concern as Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre spearheaded the creation of the Citizen National Guard, which says that dissent is destabilization,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>The senators also emphasized that there is no destabilization plot, saying dissent is not destabilization and that dissent is indispensable in a democracy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConstitutional democracy protects the small voice, including the minority and the individual citizen, vis-a-vis the many and especially the all-powerful state,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemocracy ensures that the small voice is heard and not harassed to silence,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>The minority has also asked for the help of the Senate President and the Senate sergeant-at-arms to investigate and to secure the services of experts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe nature of the breach in all instances is the same: Unauthorized users sent emails using the staff and party addresses. We have reported previous incidents to the National Bureau of Investigation and we await updates on the matter,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition senators on Thursday said they are \u201cseriously concerned\u201d about the hacking incidents on the email addresses of the staff &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":122843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[3239,27401,2941,1146,22589],"class_list":["post-123248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-bam-aquino","tag-email-breach","tag-kiko-pangilinan","tag-liberal-party","tag-senate-minority","mauthors-carlo-jacob-molina","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}