“In the administrative inquiry conducted by Smartmatic, he only admitted having been promised training modules in exchange for allowing them, the third party, to access his laptop in order to be connected to the Smartmatic facilities,” Lorenzo said. “But, when he appeared in our office, he admitted that he was also promised, aside from training modules, he was also promised money ranging from P50,000 to P300,000,” he added.
The National Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday said the former Smartmatic employee implicated in the alleged security breach in its system was promised money of up to P300,000 in exchange of the access to his company laptop that would be connected to the facilities of the poll service provider.
“In the administrative inquiry conducted by Smartmatic, he only admitted having been promised training modules in exchange for allowing them, the third party, to access his laptop in order to be connected to the Smartmatic facilities,” Lorenzo said. He stressed there was an “unusual traffic and downloads logged in SMMT Systems” recorded from December 28, 2021 to January 2, 2022. The said activity was only detected on January 9 that was traced to Argana, he added.
Further, Lorenzo noted that on January 14, a certain XSOS Group sent an email to Smartmatic claiming that it had infiltrated networks and exfiltrated its inner documentation. In the same email, XSOS was said to have offered to provide prevention services to Smartmatic.
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