Accion Solidaria Loses Content and Goes Offline After a Web Attack
On March 9, 2017, Accion Solidaria suffered an attack on its website; PROVEA reported a loss of published content and that the site remained offline as of its March 15 report. This is classified as a service disruption with possible destructive compromise, not as a confirmed DDoS attack.
Overview
Missing evidence
Impact details
Accion Solidaria went offline after a cyberattack and reportedly lost published website content. No sources report any exposure of confidential data or theft.
Classification & severity
- Category
- Availability
- Subtype
- website outage with public content loss
- Confidence
- High
PROVEA reports that Accion Solidaria went offline following a cyberattack and lost published website content; no exposure of confidential data has been reported.
Severity assessment
Medium- Functional impact
- Denial (non-critical)
- Information impact
- Destructive loss
- Affected scope
- Single system
- Critical service
- None
- Public confidence
- Limited
- Recoverability
- Supplemented
Disruption of the public website’s service, in addition to the reported loss of content published by an NGO dedicated to health and human rights; no confidential data was exposed, and no critical infrastructure was affected.
Timeline
Accion Solidaria loses content and goes offline following a cyberattack