The Binary Guardians lists INCES/INCE among the portals affected by the August 7, 2017, campaign
IT Projects retained INCES.GOB.VE on its partial list of affected domains, and Maduradas reported INCE among the websites hacked during the same campaign. It is standardized as INCES, the current institutional name. No direct confirmation or archived screenshot was found, so it is retained as partially verified.
Overview
Missing evidence
Impact details
INCES/INCE was listed by IT Projects/Maduradas as affected by the campaign, with no direct confirmation from the victim or data exposure.
Classification & severity
- Category
- Information content security
- Subtype
- website defacement or dns redirection
- Confidence
- Medium
Public information links the target to the campaign to deface and redirect The Binary Guardians’ website. No source confirms a data breach or a compromise of the internal system in the case of this specific target.
Severity assessment
Low- Functional impact
- Minimal
- Information impact
- Integrity loss
- Affected scope
- Single system
- Critical service
- None
- Public confidence
- None
- Recoverability
- Regular
Website defacement/redirection in a public campaign; no confirmed data exposure, internal compromise, or prolonged service outage for the individual target.
Timeline
The Binary Guardians has compromised the public portal of the National Institute for Training and Socialist Education (INCES) as part of a defacement/redirect campaign targeting .ve domains.
The group spreads the message "Our struggle is digital" and expresses support for Operation David; sources at Reuters/IBTimes indicate that it was not part of the military operation.
Media outlets and technical sources publish lists of affected sites, with varying scopes: at least 25, more than 30, and about 40 websites.