Kapustkiy Reports Data Breach at the Estudios y Desastres Website
On January 14, 2017, Softpedia included estudiosydesastres.gob.ve among the .gob.ve domains allegedly compromised by Kapustkiy. The review found that the spelling likely corresponds to estudiosydesastres.gob.ve, a portal associated with FUNVISIS references. The original spelling from the source is preserved in the notes, and confidence remains partial.
Overview
Missing evidence
Impact details
Softpedia reports that Kapustkiy has compromised the website estudiosydesastres.gob.ve and released a database dump containing names, email addresses, phone numbers, and encrypted passwords. No service disruption has been reported, nor has there been any official confirmation, and the relationship between the domain and its owner remains unclear.
Classification & severity
- Category
- Information content security
- Subtype
- Leak of confidential information
- Confidence
- Medium
Softpedia reports that Kapustkiy has compromised the website estudiosydesastres.gob.ve and analyzed a database dump containing personal and contact information, as well as hashed passwords; users should be careful regarding the domain’s spelling and the owner’s assignment.
Severity assessment
Medium- Functional impact
- None
- Information impact
- Credentials
- Affected scope
- Single system
- Critical service
- None
- Public confidence
- Limited
- Recoverability
- Regular
An attack has been reported on a government-linked disaster research and management portal, where a verified data dump containing personal and contact information, as well as hashed passwords, was discovered; the identity of the owner and the domain is unclear, and no service disruption has been reported.
Timeline
Kapustkiy reports a data breach on the Estudios y Desastres website