Sebastiana Barráez (periodista, Punto de Corte)
Communications · Private sebastianasinsecretos.com
- Incidents
- 2
- High impact
- 0
- First seen
- Sep 27, 2018
- Latest seen
- Apr 25, 2019
Linked incidents
An attack took down the website sebastianasinsecretos.com, run by Venezuelan journalist Sebastiana Barráez
According to Freedom House’s 2019 Freedom on the Net report, Venezuelan independent journalist Sebastiana Barráez created her own website, sebastianasinsecretos.com, to circumvent the blockade imposed in Venezuela against the news outlet Infobae. That site was targeted in two attacks during 2019. One of these attacks took the site offline after it republished an article about threats made by the armed group ELN against the May 1 march called for by Juan Guaidó—an article originally published on Infobae on April 25, 2019. Despite the attacks, the journalist continued to publish on other platforms.
Journalist Sebastiana Barráez’s Twitter account was hacked after she reported torture at the Dgcim
On September 27, 2018, Venezuelan journalist Sebastiana Barráez, who specializes in military affairs, reported that her Twitter account @SebastianaB had been hacked shortly after she published an article on the Punto de Corte website about the mistreatment and torture of military personnel detained at the headquarters of the General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence (Dgcim) in Boleíta, Caracas. After losing control of her account, the journalist created a new profile (@SebastianaSin). The incident was interpreted by press organizations as retaliation linked to her investigative work.