low severity March 27, 2016 · 1 min read

COMELEC (Philippines Voters) Data Breach (2016)

If you are a customer of COMELEC (Philippines Voters), here’s what’s now in circulation.

In March 2016, the Philippines Commission of Elections website (COMELEC) was attacked and defaced, allegedly by Anonymous Philippines. Shortly after, data on 55 million Filipino voters was leaked publicly and included sensitive information such as genders, marital statuses, height and weight and biometric fingerprint data. The breach only included 228k email addresses.

COMELEC (Philippines Voters) Data Breach (2016)

What the free scan actually returns

Sample resultyou@email.comIllustrative — not a real person

Found on people-search siteswe remove these

These listings are live, public, and legal to remove — and removing them is what we do.

value redacted in this sampleage, relatives, address historySpokeo

value redacted in this samplephone, household, property recordsBeenVerified

value redacted in this sample582 companies checked

Found in breach recordsverifiedreported — unverified

Each record is labeled: confirmed breach data, or an attacker’s claim no one has verified.

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unverifiedvalue redacted in this sampleclaimed in ransomware listing · 2026leak-site claim

Leaked data cannot be deleted from the internet — anyone claiming otherwise is lying. Broker listings can be removed. We do the second, and show you exactly what to fix from the first.

What to do now

Steps that match what this notice says was exposed

Every step below is free and you do it yourself, and none of it depends on COMELEC (Philippines Voters).

Report the passport number. A compromised passport number can be reported to the US State Department, which will flag it. Replacing it is neither quick nor free, so report it before you need to travel.

One more, whatever was exposed: a breach notice is a favourite disguise for a phishing email. If a message about this arrives, do not use its links — go to the company’s site yourself, or call the number on your statement.

Were you a COMELEC (Philippines Voters) customer?

COMELEC (Philippines Voters) is one listing. Your email is probably in others.

229K accounts were exposed here. Check whether yours is one — and find every other leak tied to the same address, in about 15 seconds. No account, no card.

Report details & sourcing

Severity Low identifiers that cannot be reissued, alongside documents or accounts that can be misused now

Disclosed March 27, 2016

Last reviewed July 22, 2026

Affected 229K

Data exposed Biometric dataDates of birthEmail addressesFamily members' namesGendersJob titlesMarital statusesNames +4 more

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Sources: Have I Been Pwned

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COMELEC (Philippines Voters) Data Breach (2016)

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