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The Federal Police of Brazil identified Portugal as the origin of a cyber attack on the computer system of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal of Brazil, which occurred before October 23 and which, according to the authorities, did not affect the municipal elections on Sunday.
The group of hackers that claims to have entered the system is called CyberTeam and, according to the newspaper O State of S. Paul It is based in Portugal and has a history of attempts to override security systems in Brazil.
“It was a leak [de informações] without any relevance and without any importance for the electoral process (…) This attack apparently originated in Portugal and, always remembering, the polls [eletrónicas] they are not in network [conectadas à internet]therefore, they are not vulnerable to any type of attack during the electoral process ”, said this Sunday the president of the Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE), Luis Roberto Barroso.
This Sunday morning, Veja magazine published information about this first attack on the TSE that would have come out of Portugal, adding that only old data on judicial officials was extracted from the computer system. There was no data theft after October 23.
Shortly after 10 a.m. on Sunday (Brasilia time, 1 p.m. Lisbon), the TSE computer systems were again attacked by cybercriminals in another action that would have come from Brazil, the United States and New Zealand.
The action took place during municipal elections across the country, which brought thousands of Brazilians to the polls to welcome the new mayors and councilors of the legislative chambers of 5,567 cities.
Barroso had already confirmed early in the afternoon that the TSE systems were the target of an invasion attempt on Sunday, which had no impact on the vote.
“In fact, there was an attempted attack today, with a series of massive blows to try to bring down the system. This attack has been neutralized and has had no impact,” Barroso said.
“The information I have is that it was an attempt to bring down the system. But everything is working fine,” he added.
In addition to cyber-piracy, the elections in Brazil presented problems at the end of Sunday night with problems in the dissemination of the results, which usually occur in a few hours because the country adopts an electronic voting system.
In a note, the TSE highlighted that the slowness in the vote totalization process was causing a delay in the dissemination of the results of the vote count.
“The data is normally sent by the Regional Electoral Courts (TRE) and normally received by the totalization bank, which is adding the content more slowly than expected,” the court statement said.
“The problem is being solved by the technicians, for a quick resumption of the disclosure process. We emphasize that there is no relationship with the leakage of personal data from the servers [funcionários do TSE] and nothing related to the attempted cyberattack registered in the morning ”, he concluded.
The Minister of Justice and Public Security, André Mendonça, said this Sunday that the Federal Police are investigating the leakage of data from public officials of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE). According to the minister, preliminary analyzes indicate that access to information occurred before October and that the data obtained is old.
“Within this investigation, it is already known that the data disclosed is old data, from the year 2001, so it is not recent data, and that access to this data occurred on a date prior to October 23 of this year. The Federal Police are looking for the author of access to this data, his identification and, of course, his arrest, ”he explained.
News updated at 3.30 this Monday.
