Anonymous Venezuela defaces the CANTV website (www.cantv.com.ve)
On June 22, 2014, the hacktivist group Anonymous Venezuela (@AnonymousVene10) claimed responsibility for the attack on CANTV’s main website, www.cantv.com.ve, posting messages mocking the state-owned operator and the government (“HACKED AND ERADICATED!”, “What happened, CANTV Fail???”) and claiming that CANTV “spies” on citizens. The attack coincided with a fiber-optic outage reported by CANTV (beginning June 21) that left several states —the Capital District, Anzoátegui, Falcón, Aragua, Carabobo, and Miranda—and also affected ATMs, point-of-sale terminals, and telephone lines. Media sources have documented the group’s claim of responsibility, although there was no independent technical verification of the defacement by the operator.
Impact details
Anonymous Venezuela has claimed responsibility for defacing www.cantv.com.ve with anti-government messages. Public reports indicate a simultaneous outage of CANTV’s fiber-optic service, but this report considers this to be a contextual factor, as no source provides technical evidence that it was caused by the website defacement.
Classification & severity
- Category
- Information content security
- Subtype
- website defacement
- Confidence
- High
Public reports document Anonymous Venezuela claiming responsibility for the defacement of CANTV's website. A concurrent fiber outage is noted by sources but is not considered to be a technically proven cause of the website defacement.
Severity assessment
Low- Functional impact
- Degraded (non-critical)
- Information impact
- Integrity loss
- Affected scope
- Single system
- Critical service
- None
- Public confidence
- Limited
- Recoverability
- Regular
The defacement of CANTV’s public website; the simultaneous interruption of telecommunications service is not considered technical evidence of the defacement.
Timeline
CANTV reports via Twitter that a fiber-optic cable cut has left several states (Capital District, Anzoátegui, Falcón, Aragua, Carabobo, Miranda) without phone service and internet for approximately 2 hours, affecting ATMs, point-of-sale terminals, and phone lines.
Anonymous Venezuela hacks/defaces the main website www.cantv.com.ve.
Anonymous Venezuela (@AnonymousVene10) claimed responsibility for hacking the site with mocking messages (“HACKED AND ERADICATED!”, “What happened, CANTV Fail???”), alleging that CANTV spies on citizens.
Media outlets (maduradas.com, leanoticias.com) and then tech news sites (siliconweek.com) report on the incident.