Hack of the Venezuelan Episcopal Conference’s website
On March 10, 2017, the Venezuelan Episcopal Conference reported that its website had been hacked and that its technical team was working to restore it. The incident occurred during the same week as attacks against Venezuelan media outlets and organizations, but it is recorded as a separate incident based on the victim and date.
Impact details
0 Exposed records
It was reported that the CEV’s public website had been the target of a cyberattack and was inaccessible, while its technical team worked to restore it. Sources have not confirmed that any data was stolen, the site was defaced, or the internal system was compromised.
Classification & severity
- Category
- Availability
- Subtype
- website outage or take down
- Confidence
- Medium
Sources confirm that the CEV website was hacked and is unavailable, but do not confirm a defacement, data theft, or internal compromise.
Severity assessment
Low- Functional impact
- Denial (non-critical)
- Information impact
- None
- Affected scope
- Single system
- Critical service
- None
- Public confidence
- Limited
- Recoverability
- Regular
A service disruption affecting the public website of a religious institution of public interest has been confirmed; no data breach, content tampering, or critical impact on the service has been confirmed.
Timeline
The website of the Venezuelan Episcopal Conference is hacked and goes offline.
The CEV publicly reports the hack via its Twitter account; its technical team is working to regain control of the website.
Affected media outlets (El Pitazo) report that the attackers have access to expensive infrastructure and point to suspicions regarding state agencies (Sebin), though no attribution has been confirmed.