Venezuelan Public Prosecutor’s Office Website Defaced and Alleged Breach of Patria System Accounts by ‘Sistem Fail’ / TeamHDP
On May 4, 2023, attackers defaced the Public Prosecutor’s Office website with political messages and references to TeamHDP/Sistem Fail. Media outlets confirmed the defacement. The claim regarding 90,000 Sistema Patria accounts is documented in a separate record.
Impact details
The Public Prosecutor’s Office website was defaced with political messages. The alleged data breach at Patria is being tracked separately and has not been confirmed as involving data from the Public Prosecutor’s Office.
Classification & severity
- Category
- Information content security
- Subtype
- Unauthorised modification of information
- Confidence
- High
Severity assessment
Medium- Functional impact
- Degraded (non-critical)
- Information impact
- Integrity loss
- Affected scope
- Single system
- Critical service
- Potential
- Public confidence
- Moderate
- Recoverability
- Supplemented
Confirmed public website defacement; the data breach claim is a separate issue.
Timeline
The Venezuelan Public Prosecutor’s Office website was defaced with messages of protest and demands for higher wages; the attack was claimed by accounts linked to Sistem Fail / TeamHDP.
The group claims to have compromised more than 90,000 accounts in the Patria System due to a configuration flaw, exposing personal, banking, and vehicle data.
Venezuelan and regional media outlets (El Vigilante, Correo del Caroni, NTN24) report the disruption and alleged breach of the Patria System.