website outage or take down

Correo del Caroni Takes Its Website Offline Following a Cyberattack

Between March 10 and 11, 2017, Correo del Caroni took its website offline following a cyberattack to protect its information. El Pitazo and Efecto Cocuyo reported that the site remained offline after approximately 17 hours.

Overview

Missing evidence

confirmed actorForensic confirmation of the technique

Impact details

Correo del Caroni took its website offline following a cyberattack on March 10, 2017; reports indicate that it was down for at least 17 hours. No data breach was reported.

news websiteweb server

Classification & severity

Category
Availability
Subtype
website outage or take down
Confidence
High

Media reports indicate that Correo del Caroni took its website offline following a cyberattack, resulting in at least 17 hours of service disruption.

Severity assessment

Medium
Functional impact
Denial (non-critical)
Information impact
None
Affected scope
Organization-wide
Critical service
None
Public confidence
Limited
Recoverability
Regular

Website availability incident targeting an NGO or media organization; no data exposure or critical service disruption.

Service disrupted· 17h Availability

Timeline

Discovery

Correo del Caroni Takes Its Website Offline Following a Cyberattack

Evidence & sources

2 sources