Service outage
Anonymous claims responsibility for attack on the City Hall of the Bolivarian Libertador Municipality of Caracas
Anonymous accounts claimed responsibility for an attack on caracas.gob.ve. Efecto Cocuyo/EsPaja verified that the Caracas Mayor’s Office website was down during the review, but did not determine the type of attack or confirm that any data had been compromised.
Overview
Missing evidence
It is unclear whether any data was leaked or whether there was any material loss resulting from the incident beyond the temporary unavailability of the website.
Impact details
An outage of the Caracas municipal portal was independently observed; no data exposure or specific DDoS telemetry was confirmed.
website or public portal
Classification & severity
- Category
- Availability
- Subtype
- Service outage
- Confidence
- Medium
Independent media outlets noted that the municipal website was down; the type of attack has not been confirmed.
Severity assessment
Medium- Functional impact
- Degraded (non-critical)
- Information impact
- None
- Affected scope
- Organization-wide
- Critical service
- Potential
- Public confidence
- Limited
This only affects the availability of the public website; no data breach has been confirmed.
Service disrupted Availability
Timeline
Claim
Anonymous identified the Mayor’s Office of the Bolivarian Libertador Municipality of Caracas as a suspected victim.