Websites of Brazil’s Northeastern states are hacked: “Annulment of votes of all the people of the Northeast”
Hackers took down the websites of Northeastern state governments on Monday (Dec. 12). The messages were published with political motivations.
The actions happened on the pages of agencies linked to the governments of Alagoas, Pernambuco, Ceará, and Maranhão.
The most serious cases, which left pages offline for a few hours, occurred in Ceará and Alagoas.
Those who accessed the home page of the Ceará government found only a banner with a xenophobic message and hate speech calling for “annulment of the votes of all the people of the Northeast” and that “Northeasterners votes do not count” and for military intervention.
The government of Ceará informed us that the sites were already working on Tuesday (Dec. 13).
It added that no content was affected and that the case was reported to the Civil Police investigating the invasion.
NO ACCESS
In Alagoas, the civil and military police websites and the Finance and Health Secretariats were without access yesterday for several hours.
On the page of the Treasury, the invaders themselves left a message warning that no data hosted on the portal would be lost and only the home page had been changed.
In a note, the Alagoas government, through the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa, declared that the hacking reached government sites in other states, which were offline simultaneously.
And that only the address directions of the sites were changed and that data, services, and connectivity are already restored.
The lawyer specialized in digital law, Dyego de Moraes, said that only after the results of the investigations it will be possible to classify the crimes since it will still be determined whether there was access to the data or just a takedown of the pages and overlapping of temporary messages.
He admits possible framing as from the result of the investigations.
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