The chancellor from Guatemala, Mario Bucarorecognized this Saturday a intrusion to infrastructure technology of the consular networkwhich led to the system were temporarily suspended.
“There was cyber meddling recently on the Chancellery” that affected the attention of Guatemalans in the Foreignsaid the official in a recorded statement from Lime, Peru, where he participates in OAS General Assembly.
Búcaro explained that after a security protocol internal se discovered a fault in the computer Services and a forensic analysis detected the intrusion in their servers.
The technical problems were reported from September and caused the Guatemalan datingspecially in USAthey had to be rescheduled.
The minister stated that the services are already restored Y operating.
the official denied that passport information was stolen or of documents of identity, who manage the Guatemalan Institute of Migration and the National Registry of Personsrespectively.
He also commented that they talked with migrant leaders to clarify that the “information was not compromised in no time” and they work on “a deep forensic investigation”.
“We are in all the provision to give all the information that is accurate, own and that it does not generate chaos to find the responsible” of the attack cyber, he added.
The Cancillary in Guatemala filed a complaint with the prosecution for the attack, in which he indicates that a group of hackers captured information and records, according to the press local.
Some 3 million Guatemalans reside abroad, 95% of them in USA, but only 400,000 have documents to work, according to official data.
