TeamHDP Leaks More Than 5,000 Confidential Files from the Bolivarian Navy’s Permanent Evaluation Board
The Venezuelan hacktivist group TeamHDP, in cooperation with former intelligence officials, claimed to have obtained more than 5,000 confidential files from the Permanent Evaluation Board of the Bolivarian Navy, which reports to the Ministry of Popular Power for Defense. The first batch of 500 documents was published on June 27, 2022, on the website dataconfirmada.com. The disclosed information reportedly includes personnel data from the Honor Guard, the DGCIM, the SEBIN, high-ranking officials, and alleged operatives deployed abroad.
Impact details
TeamHDP has claimed that more than 5,000 confidential defense files from the Bolivarian Navy Evaluation Board have been leaked. Infobae reported that the first 500 files were published via Dataconfirmada. The exact authenticity of each file has not yet been confirmed by the government.
Classification & severity
- Category
- Information content security
- Subtype
- Leak of confidential information
- Confidence
- High
The media reported that TeamHDP had leaked confidential files from the Navy and the Department of Defense, the first batch of which was published via Dataconfirmada.
Severity assessment
High- Functional impact
- None
- Information impact
- Government-sensitive
- Affected scope
- Organization-wide
- Critical service
- Potential
- Public confidence
- Moderate
- Recoverability
- Not recoverable
Leakage of sensitive government data or alleged leakage affecting defense, intelligence, or judicial systems; the publication of public data is the strongest argument in the cases involving the Navy and the DGCIM.
Timeline
TeamHDP, in cooperation with former intelligence officials, launched a series of cyberattacks against Venezuelan military and intelligence agencies (DGCIM/SEBIN), which preceded the Navy leak.
TeamHDP claims to have accessed more than 5,000 confidential files from the Permanent Evaluation Board of the Bolivarian Navy and the Ministry of Defense.
A first batch of 500 documents is published on the dataconfirmada.com website, as reported by media outlets such as Infobae and La Patilla.