The MUD/Unidad Venezuela website is defaced for the second time in August 2017
On August 6, 2017, the Mesa de la Unidad Democrática website was reported to have been hacked for the second time in less than a month. El Carabobeno featured a video of a speech by Jean-Luc Mélenchon on Venezuela and cited messages from Unidad Venezuela denouncing the hack. No reliable public attribution to The Binary Guardians was found.
Overview
Missing evidence
Impact details
The Unidad Venezuela/MUD public website was defaced again on August 6, 2017. No public evidence indicates a data breach or internal compromise.
Classification & severity
- Category
- Information content security
- Subtype
- website defacement
- Confidence
- High
Public reports and digital rights timelines document the defacement of the Unidad Venezuela website; there is no evidence linking it to an internal breach.
Severity assessment
Low- Functional impact
- Minimal
- Information impact
- Integrity loss
- Affected scope
- Single system
- Critical service
- None
- Public confidence
- Limited
- Recoverability
- Regular
Public website defacement of a political coalition site; no data exposure or impact on critical services.
Timeline
The MUD/Unidad Venezuela website has been hacked again, for the second time in less than a month.
Unidad Venezuela published messages on social media reporting the second hack of its page.
El Carabobeno reports that the site featured a video of Jean-Luc Mélenchon discussing Venezuela.