The Binary Guardians Hack the MPPEUCT Website Following the Constituent Assembly Election
Espacio Público reported that The Binary Guardians listed the Ministry of Popular Power for University Education, Science, and Technology among the sites compromised on July 31, 2017, following the results of the National Constituent Assembly. PanAm Post referred more generally to the Ministry of Education. There was insufficient public evidence to create a 2017 incident involving me.gob.ve.
Overview
Missing evidence
Impact details
MPPEUCT/mppeuct.gob.ve was listed by Espacio Público/PanAm Post as affected during The Binary Guardians' activity. No data exposure or internal compromise was reported.
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 or public portal outage in a public campaign; no confirmed data exposure, internal compromise, or prolonged service outage for the individual target.
Timeline
The Binary Guardians lists several websites that were compromised following the results of the Constituent Assembly election.
Espacio Público identifies the Ministry of Popular Power for University Education, Science, and Technology as one of the compromised sites.
A subsequent review ruled out filing a 2017 complaint against me.gob.ve due to a lack of specific public evidence.