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Security of KPU's IT system questioned
Amid a barrage of accusations attempting to undermine the General Elections Commissionâs (KPU) credibility, an anonymous hacker has come forward claiming that he was able to hack the election organizerâs IT system thus proving how easy it was for someone to rig the election
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mid a barrage of accusations attempting to underminethe General Elections Commission's (KPU) credibility, an anonymous hacker hascome forward claiming that he was able to hack the election organizer's ITsystem thus proving how easy it was for someone to rig the election.
The details of the security breach were described in the website audit-kpu.blogspot.com, which showed how the hacker easily exploited the KPU's IT system by hacking into one of the commissioner's email addresses.
According to the hacker, six out of seven KPU commissioners used emails with public domains, such as Gmail and Yahoo mail, instead of more secure emails provided by the KPU.
'I'm wondering why use free email services that can be easily hacked? Was it done on purpose?' he said.
By hacking the email, the hacker claimed to be able to gain access to many passwords that could be used to enter the KPU's online system for logistics and voter data, which he claimed to be easily manipulated.
KPU commissioner Sigit Pamungkas dismissed any breach of the IT system on Friday, saying that even if the hacker was able to hack into the IT system, he could do nothing to rig the election.
'If the voter data or the number of polling stations were changed, then the regional election commission [KPUD]s would notice immediately as it [the election data] is related tightly to budgeting,' he said.
Sigit added that the central KPU could not easily change the number of polling stations or ballot papers as the people who decided the number were the KPUDs.
Many allegations emerged that the KPU website that contains scanned C1 vote recapitulation forms from polling stations, as well as Kawalpemilu.org, the community initiative to tabulate the data from the KPU, were hacked. None of the allegations are proven.
The results of manual count from the original C1 documents given to the KPU are similar to the ones downloaded and tabulated by Kawalpemilu.org, an evidence that both counts used same documents.
