Candidates’ personal information leaked during the first election, the Kuomintang caucus severely condemned

The National Election Committee was exposed today (28th) when the personal information of 1,573 candidates was leaked. The Kuomintang group of the Legislative Yuan criticized the Central Election Committee. It should be the most impartial and rigorous independent agency. Even the most basic information security protection was completely abandoned, causing the privacy of all registered candidates in Taiwan. The Kuomintang group issued the strongest condemnation. "Even the digital personal information of the candidates cannot be kept. Can the people still trust that the Central Election Committee is capable of hosting a huge national election fairly, justly and securely?"

The Kuomintang League stated that the DPP government talks about "information security is national security" all day long and establishes a digital development department to allocate large sums of public funds every year. As a result, the core election agencies even have basic system protection, access control and authority control in vain. Candidates' personal information leaks out easily. Is the system hacked, internal control failure, or simply no awareness of protection? This is not negligence, this is complete laziness and incompetence.

The Kuomintang League pointed out that participating in an election is not about exposing one’s trump cards to others. The leakage of candidates’ addresses, phone numbers, and identity information is likely to become a criminal hotbed for fraud groups, and may even pose a direct threat to the personal safety of candidates and their families. The Central Election Commission's mistakes put all candidates in Taiwan at risk. Who gave the Central Election Commission the privilege of disregarding the rights and interests of the people?

The Kuomintang League said that the election work has "zero error tolerance" and that information security protection is the cornerstone of credibility. The elected committee usually makes comments on various election matters, but when it comes to key protections, it fails to follow the plan. The Central Election Commission should not try to cover up and shirk responsibility or blame the grassroots. The Central Election Commission chairman You Yinglong and the responsible officials immediately came forward to explain publicly and bowed and apologized to all candidates and the people across the country.

The Kuomintang group named them, and the Ministry of Digital Development and the Information Security Administration immediately intervened in the investigation to clarify whether it was a system loophole or human error, and sent a complete investigation report to the Legislative Yuan. In addition, an emergency remedial mechanism will be activated to comprehensively conduct a comprehensive inventory of the affected lists and provide legal and security support to injured candidates.

The Kuomintang League emphasized that credibility is the soul of elections, and the Central Election Commission is destroying this trust with its own hands. The Kuomintang group will never sit idly by and pretend to be deaf and dumb if it wins the election. The Legislative Yuan will pursue it to the end and will never give any leniency.