Brazillian feds started operation against hacktivists
Federal Police of Brazil fulfill search and seizure warrant at the house of three suspects for invasion of public databases and exposure of data from the military and president Jair Bolsonaro
The Federal Police of Brazil carried out an investigative operation against suspects of breaking into public databanks. The operation its called “Operation Capture The Flag” and started yesterday (26/06) with a search and seizure warrants in the houses of three young (between 17 and 19 years old) suspects.
The feds believe the suspects represent the cybercriminal group “Digital Space”. According to the local press (Valor Econômico), the group is being accused of exposing personal data from many army officers, the president Jair Bolsonaro and his family.
The exposed data happened during the last month, in an act of protest against the way the president Jair Bolsonaro is carrying the coronavirus situation.
Bolsonaro is an ex-army officer and still maintains a close relationship with them in politics. Citizens and other politicians fear that the family Bolsonaro is planning a military coup.
The feds say the group published personal data from about 4 thousand army officers and medical exams from Jair Bolsonaro. Files containing names, bank data, personal identification documents, school level, religion, and more were published on a generic Twitter account. The group said that the published files are less them 25% of the whole material they collected.
“They published this data on social media pages. In the case of the military, it was personal data, homes, phones, everything the guy has on his functional record, in theory, was invaded by them. Public agencies, city halls, chambers, put security is very much at risk, including national security, something that will still be analyzed in the course of the investigation”, says José Antônio Dornelles de Oliveira, superintendent of the Federal Police to the press (G1).
