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Caída reportada del portal de Despegar en la campaña de The Binary Guardians

La caída del portal de Despegar fue reportada por el periodista Fran Monroy durante #Festihackers el 7 de agosto de 2017. Runrun.es incrustó esa publicación y vinculó la lista con la campaña atribuida a The Binary Guardians; El Pitazo incluyó «Depegar.com.ve», aparente error tipográfico, entre al menos 25 objetivos reportados, e IT Projects incluyó el dominio exacto despegar.com.ve en su lista parcial de la campaña. Esto respalda una indisponibilidad puntual reportada del portal público, pero no demuestra defacement, redirección DNS, método, duración, recuperación individual ni causalidad del actor. No se encontró declaración de Despegar, captura del portal, telemetría, acceso a sistemas internos, exfiltración ni impacto en reservas o datos de clientes.

Overview

Missing evidence

direct capture or measurement of despegar.com.ve while unavailablestatement from Despegartechnical cause and initial vectorduration and exact recoveryevidence of any reservation, internal-system or customer-data impact

Impact details

Fran Monroy reported Despegar among pages down during the campaign. No evidence establishes the exact domain state, duration, recovery, altered content, DNS redirection, reservations impact, internal-system access, confidentiality loss, data exposure, people impact or financial loss.

portal web público de Despegar Venezuela

Classification & severity

Category
Availability
Subtype
website outage or take down
Confidence
Medium

Fran Monroy contemporaneously listed Despegar among pages down, and two media/domain lists place Despegar in the surrounding campaign. This supports reported unavailability, not defacement, DNS redirection, internal compromise or proven actor causality.

Severity assessment

Low
Functional impact
Degraded (non-critical)
Affected scope
Single system
Critical service
None
Public confidence
Limited

Contemporaneous target-specific report of public-portal unavailability, without established duration, travel-service impact, internal compromise or data impact.

Reported disruption Availability

Timeline

Disclosure

Fran Monroy enumeró a Despegar entre varias páginas caídas durante #Festihackers; no documentó duración, causa, dominio exacto ni recuperación.

Claim

The Binary Guardians difundió mensajes generales de campaña; ninguno de los estados exactos inspeccionados del actor nombra a Despegar.

Publication

El Pitazo, IT Projects y Runrun.es publicaron listas que nombran a Despegar o despegar.com.ve dentro de la campaña, con distintos efectos agregados y sin artefacto target-specific.

Evidence & sources

4 sources

Hackean al menos 25 páginas webs y llaman a protestar

Redacción El Pitazo / EFE Aug 7, 2017
Corroborating Media report Source confidence: Medium

What this source supports

  • El Pitazo lists Depegar.com.ve, an apparent typo for despegar.com.ve, among at least 25 reported targets
  • the article distinguishes collectively between altered, non-loading and recovered pages without individualizing Despegar
  • the broader campaign was attributed publicly to The Binary Guardians

Evidence limits

Target-list corroboration with an apparent spelling error; no target-specific artifact, condition, duration or technical method.

Relevance to this case

Corroborates Despegar as a reported campaign target, not a particular target-specific modality or impact.

Venezuela: hacktivistas en desobediencia civil electrónica realizan ataque masivo a portales web

IT Projects C.A. Aug 7, 2017
Corroborating Security research Source confidence: Medium

What this source supports

  • the article describes the broader campaign as defacement
  • it explicitly names despegar.com.ve among private-company targets and in its partial domain list
  • it says most campaign pages were recovered during the afternoon without individualizing Despegar

Evidence limits

Secondary technical/editorial account without a Despegar capture, direct observation, technical indicator or individual recovery record.

Relevance to this case

Preserves exact-domain linkage and broad campaign context; it does not prove Despegar-specific defacement.

Grupo de hackers tumban varias páginas web venezolanas públicas y privadas en protesta

Redacción Runrun.es / EFE Aug 7, 2017
Corroborating Media report Source confidence: Medium

What this source supports

  • the article embeds Fran Monroy status 894596214196404225 naming Despegar among pages then down
  • it links that list to the broader campaign attributed to The Binary Guardians
  • its two actor posts are general and do not name Despegar

Evidence limits

Strong bridge to a target-specific contemporaneous report of unavailability, but neither the article nor post provides telemetry, duration, mechanism, recovery or actor causality.

Relevance to this case

Best stored bridge to target-specific reported availability evidence; malformed unrelated claims removed.

@fmonroy incluye Despegar entre páginas caídas durante #Festihackers

Fran Monroy Moret (@fmonroy) Aug 7, 2017
Primary Social media Source confidence: Medium

What this source supports

  • Fran Monroy names Despegar among several pages down during #Festihackers
  • the post is contemporaneous and target-specific
  • the post does not state a cause, duration, domain, technical method or recovery

Evidence limits

Primary contemporaneous public observation, not telemetry or a victim statement; it does not prove causation by The Binary Guardians or distinguish an attack from another outage cause.

Relevance to this case

Strongest target-specific evidence for reported public-portal unavailability.