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Manila: Hackers launched a series of New Year’s day attacks that temporarily shut down several Philippine government websites including the office of the vice-president, officials said on Monday.

Vice President Jejomar Binay said hackers calling themselves the PrivateX group brought down his official website for 15 hours on Sunday and denied access to mostly migrant Filipinos checking on his office’s activities. The website provides information on the programmes, projects and services of his office, which also serves as a portal for country’s more than nine million overseas workers to air their concerns and grievances.

“On January 1, 2012 at about 4 pm, the official website of the Office of the Vice President was hacked by the PrivateX group, which caused the site to be down by more than 15 hours,” Binay said in a statement.

He said his website was hosted by the state-run Advanced Science and Techology Institute (ASTI) which had already launched an investigation into the incident.

The same group had also defaced the websites of the Philippine Nuclear Research Institute, the anti-piracy Optical Media Board and two others run by small government agencies. (AFP)

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