By ANTHONY IAN CRUZ
Malaya
January 4, 2008

PRANKSTERS yesterday hacked websites of at least three government agencies in an apparent protest against President Arroyo.

Redirected to the website of popular theme park Enchanted Kingdom were the websites of the Department of Justice (http://www.doj.gov.ph/), the Philippine National Police Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (http://www.cidg.pnp.gov.ph) and Information Technology and Electronic Commerce Council (http://www.itecc.gov.ph/).

President Arroyo, in a speech at a conference of employers last May, called on employers and the public to join her in bringing the Philippines to the “Enchanted Kingdom.”

In that speech, Arroyo said: “Let’s stay together. Let’s dream together. And what do I mean by being in the Enchanted Kingdom, we can operationalize that? Let’s be among the countries of the First World in 20 years.”

Arroyo repeated this in a message marking the 2007 Christmas holidays.

The DOJ website was restored yesterday but the PNP-CIDG and ITECC sites remain pointed to the theme park website.

System administrators at the DOJ were monitoring the site and have not received any lead on the hacker.