LulzSecPeru takes over the PSUV’s Twitter account during #OpVenezuela
On the night of February 14, 2014, LulzSecPeru took control of the official Twitter account of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (@PartidoPSUV) and posted hostile messages linked to #OpVenezuela. Contemporary sources cite the PSUV’s statement and posts by the actor; some embedded tweets show a UTC date of February 15, but the report and the local time place the incident on February 14.
Overview
Missing evidence
Impact details
LulzSecPeru posted unauthorized messages from the PSUV’s Twitter account during #OpVenezuela. The party reported that service had been restored and denied the attacker’s claims; no data theft or system or service breach was reported.
Classification & severity
- Category
- Intrusions
- Subtype
- social media account takeover
- Confidence
- High
A report from that time documents unauthorized posts on the PSUV’s official Twitter account attributed to LulzSecPeru during #OpVenezuela.
Severity assessment
Low- Functional impact
- Degraded (non-critical)
- Information impact
- Integrity loss
- Affected scope
- Single system
- Critical service
- None
- Public confidence
- Limited
- Recoverability
- Regular
A political party’s Twitter account has been compromised, resulting in unauthorized posts; no data breach or service disruption by the government has been reported.
Timeline
LulzSecPeru hacks the PSUV’s Twitter account during #OpVenezuela