The official site My Argentina and the SUBE Card applicationtwo of the Government’s most important digital platforms, were hacked this Wednesday night after suffering a cyber attack. The news became known in the last few hours and caused concern among the authorities, given the magnitude of data on millions of citizens that the platform contains, which makes it a sensitive target.
The Secretariat of Innovation, Science and Technology confirmed that it was a cyber attack. In the first minutes of Thursday, although it was possible to access the website argentina.gob.ar, most of its sections were still inaccessible. Operation became normal as the hours passed.
The link “about this site” It was one of the last where the message could be seen “hacked by h4xx0r1337 $gov.eth”, until then the same text that was visible in the rest of the sections that had been left without content appeared.
Hacking of the Mi Argentina site: how was the attack
“503 Service Unavailable. “No server is available to handle this request,” it read next to a completely white screen. This basically means that there is no server available to handle a request.
In addition, there were problems entering the affected website. in the links of My Argentina and the Sube Cardor those intended to obtain or renew the DNI and passport, and to manage the criminal record certificate. The same problems were present in most of the spaces intended for “Documentation”, “Transit and Transportation” and “Work and Employment”, and the links in the “More topics” section.
The cyber attack would have occurred around 9:30 p.m., at which time the Mi Argentina website displayed a message of “503 error”which means that The server cannot process user requests for a overload either technical failure.
A few minutes later, the first messages that confirmed the hacking of the website. Furthermore, the attackers made reference to possible attacks on other government platforms.
The group or individual responsible for the cyber attack used the pseudonym “h4xx0r1337″a signature he left in several places on the website. Also, he mentioned the account @gov.ethwhich could demonstrate a link between the two in recent cyber attacks.
The official response
In addition to holding previous efforts responsible for considering that they generated a beneficial scenario for cybercriminal attacks, the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology charged against “a group of deputies and senators of the National Congress who chose to play high politics instead of guaranteeing the funds allocated to the fight against these crimes.
He specifically spoke of “an urgent investment to strengthen infrastructure and computer security“, contemplated in DNU 656/2024, that “could not be carried out by this Government” because of those officials.
Source: Ambito
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