Corporación Eléctrica Nacional (CORPOELEC)
Utilities · State-owned corpoelec.gob.ve
- Incidents
- 3
- High impact
- 3
- First seen
- Mar 7, 2019
- Latest seen
- Apr 14, 2026
Linked incidents
GordonFreeman Claims Responsibility for Attack on SEN CORPOELEC
On April 14, 2026, a threat actor using the alias GordonFreeman claimed on DarkForums to have carried out an attack affecting Venezuela’s National Electric System (SEN) and CORPOELEC. Public threat intelligence reports described the claim as unverified and referred to a risk to critical infrastructure. No official confirmation or independently validated technical evidence was found in the sources reviewed.
Attack on Venezuela’s National Electric System (Corpoelec) during the U.S. operation on January 3, 2026
On January 4, 2026, Corpoelec reported a “criminal attack” against the National Electric System (SEN) that occurred during the U.S. military operation “Absolute Resolve” on January 3. The Panamericana (69 kV) and Escuela Militar (4.8 kV) substations, as well as several 69 kV power lines, were affected, leaving large areas of Caracas without power. The Venezuelan government blamed the incident on the United States; media outlets and cybersecurity experts debated whether the outage was caused by a cyberattack on industrial control systems, physical damage, or a combination of both. There is no public confirmation that U.S. Cyber Command directly caused the power outage.
March 2019 Nationwide Blackout: Maduro Denounces an Alleged Cyberattack on the El Guri Dam and the Corpoelec Control Center
On March 7, 2019, the largest power outage in Venezuela’s history began, leaving most of the country (affecting all 23 states and the Capital District) without electricity for several days. The government of Nicolás Maduro publicly denounced an alleged “cyberattack” against the computer system of the Simón Bolívar Hydroelectric Plant (El Guri Dam) and Corpoelec’s “electronic brain” in Caracas, attributing it to the United States and the Venezuelan opposition. The claim of a cyberattack is disputed and was not proven: experts and electrical engineers pointed out that the facilities do not use the internet and cannot be hacked remotely, and attributed the blackout to a lack of maintenance, a wildfire that damaged transmission lines from El Guri, corruption, and the brain drain of technical talent. The U.S. denied any responsibility, and no technical evidence of the attack was presented.