Cyberattack on the Montalbán Mayor’s Office Bank Account
In August 2025, the Montalbán City Hall in Carabobo, Venezuela, suffered a cyberattack targeting its official bank account. The breach resulted in the unauthorized withdrawal of municipal funds. Mayor José Alí Soto León confirmed the incident in an official statement and noted that the State Attorney General’s Office had launched an investigation.
Overview
Missing evidence
Impact details
The mayor’s statement and local media coverage describe a cyberattack on the official bank account of the municipality of Montalbán, involving the theft of municipal funds and an ongoing investigation by the district attorney’s office. No public evidence of personal data exposure or service disruption has been found.
Classification & severity
- Category
- Fraud
- Subtype
- unauthorised financial transaction
- Confidence
- High
The Notitarde report and the mayor’s statement describe unauthorized access to the city council’s official bank account via computer systems and the theft of funds, not a data breach.
Severity assessment
High- Functional impact
- Degraded (non-critical)
- Information impact
- None
- Affected scope
- Organization-wide
- Critical service
- Potential
- Public confidence
- Moderate
Official and local sources confirm the unauthorized financial loss from a municipal bank account. The impact is financial in nature and relates to data integrity; this is not a confidentiality incident or a data breach.
Timeline
An unknown party identified the Montalbán Mayor’s Office as a suspected victim.