The Binary Guardians defaced the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) website during the campaign on August 7, 2017
On August 7, 2017, the Supreme Court of Justice website was identified by media outlets and technical sources as one of the sites affected by The Binary Guardians. The defaced pages displayed anti-government messages, references to Operation David, and a quote from *The Great Dictator*. There is no public evidence of data theft or compromise of internal judicial systems.
Overview
Missing evidence
Impact details
The TSJ website was identified by EFE/BBC/IBTimes/Freedom House as having been affected by the campaign, with the impact limited to the website’s public integrity and availability.
Classification & severity
- Category
- Information content security
- Subtype
- website defacement or dns redirection
- Confidence
- High
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
Medium- Functional impact
- Degraded (non-critical)
- Information impact
- Integrity loss
- Affected scope
- Single system
- Critical service
- Potential
- Public confidence
- Limited
- 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 have compromised the public portal of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) 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.