"Hack Puts Latin American Security Agencies on Edge"

Mexico's president confirmed recently that a massive trove of emails from Mexico's Defense Department is among electronic communications taken by a group of hackers from military and police agencies across several Latin American countries.  The individuals behind the breaches call themselves Guacamaya and are supposedly affiliated with Anonymous.  The group hacks to try to expose injustice and corruption in defense of Indigenous peoples.  The group does not ask for a ransom when they breach systems.  Instead, they publish the data that they steal.   López Obrador downplayed the hack, saying that "there's nothing that isn't known." He said the intrusion occurred during a change of Defense Department systems.  Chile was another country that was breached by the group and was so concerned about the breach of its systems that it called its defense minister back from the United States last week, where she was attending the United Nations General Assembly with President Gabriel Boric.  During investigations, it was found that the ten terabytes of data taken by the group also include emails from the militaries in El Salvador, Peru, and Colombia, as well as El Salvador's National Police.  The Mexico portion of the data appeared to be the largest.  

SecurityWeek reports: "Hack Puts Latin American Security Agencies on Edge"