A Colombian hacktivist named Andrés Sepúlveda has revealed to the U.S. media how easy it is to rig the presidential elections, after having hacked political rivals to engineer results in elections across nine Latin American countries. Sepúlveda is currently serving a 10-year prison sentence after being caught hacking Colombia’s 2014 presidential race. Engadget.com reports: Perhaps the most ostentatious allegation he makes is that he was paid to ensure Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party’s (PRI) candidate, Peña Nieto, won the country’s election in 2012. Sepúlveda claims he was given a $600,000 war chest to ensure victory, and assembled a team of hackers to make it happen. The team, he says, installed router malware at the headquarters of PRI’s main opponents. and used that to tap into phones and computers in the buildings. With this link established, he could read campaign schedules and speeches before they were even finished, and read confidential emails between campaign team members. He then used both fake, hand-written accounts and an army of 30,000 Twitter bots, using this confidential information to give his candidate the upper hand. In one example of it all coming together, Bloomberg says Sepúlveda discovered a candidate’s weaknesses among voters in an internal staff memo, and [...]