It was revealed that the personal information of 1,573 candidates for county and city chiefs and parliamentarians was leaked from the Central Election Commission. The Central Election Commission held a press conference today (29th). Representative You Yinglong, the chairman, bowed and apologized, and further explained the case.
He said that only 32 IPs actually entered the candidate's property declaration website and may have downloaded relevant information, but it should not be assumed that these 32 IPs have bad intentions. However, Ye Zhicheng, a senior analyst at the China Election Commission, said that the China Election Commission has not yet analyzed whether the 32 IPs come from domestic or overseas sources, and it is impossible to tell whether they copied the information.
The "Taiwan Forward Front", composed of four small parties including Time Force and Taiwan Foundation, recently revealed that while the Central Election Commission disclosed the property declaration information of candidates, it also leaked the ID numbers of 1,573 candidates, including the personal information of Taipei mayor candidates Shen Boyang, Chiang Wanan and others. The government's attitude is still negative. The affected candidates have not been notified one by one since the incident. It asked the Central Election Commission to fully hold them accountable and publish a review report.
You Yinglong said that looking back on this incident, after receiving the news the day before yesterday, the election committee immediately took relevant actions, corrected the error in less than 2 hours, and relaunched the website to open the website for everyone to use. When he heard about the leakage of candidates’ personal information from the Central Election Commission, he felt it was incredible and completely unacceptable. This kind of thing should not have happened at all, but it happened, causing unrest among the people, candidates and society. He would like to express his 120,000-point apology on behalf of the Central Election Commission.
You Yinglong said that the establishment of the candidate's property declaration system was originally a good thing, but unexpectedly it caused an incident due to the unintentional negligence of the engineers of the outsourced company "Acer Information Company". Fortunately, so far, no actual damage has occurred. As for whether it will affect the promotion of election affairs, he can say categorically, "No, please rest assured, the people of the country." They will successfully complete both the unity election and the referendum this year.
You Yinglong also mentioned that after two days of careful consideration on how to avoid this happening in the future, he came up with a tentative answer. The government must implement the "Four Eyes Principle", which is a very important mechanism in the technology industry. Any future government outsourcing projects should require contractors to fully implement the "Four Eyes Principle". When one group of people is executing, another group of people is required to conduct a double inspection, and then the government conducts a triple acceptance.
In addition, You Yinglong further added that after screening by the election committee, only 32 IPs have actually entered the candidate's property declaration website since the incident, or may have downloaded relevant information. However, it should not be assumed that these 32 IPs have bad intentions. Some of them are just to remind the people of the election committee that the outside world does not need to spread excessive uneasiness. He would also like to thank groups such as Power of the Times and Taiwan Advance for providing information as soon as possible.
The media is concerned, does the Election Committee know that the 32 IPs come from domestic or overseas? Ye Zhicheng, senior analyst of the Selection Committee, responded, "The Selection Committee has not analyzed the 32 IPs currently obtained from domestic and overseas sources. As for whether the IP has copied data, they cannot determine it in the log, because it is processed in the IP's own computer, and there is no way to determine this part."
As for whether the Selection Committee will seek compensation from the outsourced manufacturers? Huang Shangxiang, director of the Political Affairs Office of the Central Election Commission, said that yes, but everything still has to wait for the results of the investigation before it can be handled according to the contract. You Yinglong added that the outsourced manufacturer of the Central Election Commission is Acer. They have a good reputation and a good reputation and have undertaken many major government outsourcing cases. Even Acer will be in this situation. All government departments should be careful and cannot be negligent.
