It appears that the Philippine Information Agency website was hacked.

On the government operated information website designed to keep the public informed on issue around the archipelago, it is proclaimed in two areas–Good Governance and World which say Website hacked!!! as of 6 pm EST.

The title of the posting says: Calling all citizens of the Philippines!!!!!, which is followed by anti-government rhetoric (see screen shot below).

If the PIA site is hacked, it wouldn’t be the first such situation in the Philippines this year.

Last month, the official website of President Benigno Aquino III of the Philippines was defaced by “Anonymous Philippines”.

The hacking group has in the recent past also struck the websites of the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS), Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, Department of Health Anti-Smoking and the University of the Philippines’Institute for Development and Econometric Analysis, to name a few.

The PHILIPPINE INFORMATION AGENCY (PIA)was created in 1986 by virtue of Executive Order 100 signed by former President Corazon C. Aquino.

Its listed functions include: