A preliminary analysis by the Federal Police found that there was no data hijacking by the Ministry of Health in the hacker attack this Friday (10) that took down the Ministry of Health website and the Connect SUS platform, which provides the national vaccination certificate .
The main hypothesis of the authorities is that the criminal action was motivated by political activism on the internet, the so-called hacktivism. They assess whether there was any loss of information.
In an official statement on the case, released this Friday afternoon, the PF informed that an inquiry was launched “to determine the authorship and materiality of the crimes of invasion of a computer device, interruption or disruption of computer, telematic or public utility information services and criminal association”.
“It was found that the Ministry of Health’s databases of systems were not encrypted by the hackers,” police said.
According to criminal experts assigned to investigate the situation, the account used to access the ministry’s website was identified and is now being tracked.
In addition to the PF, the GSI (Institutional Security Office) of the Presidency was also activated by the ministry.
The folder portal went down at dawn. When trying to access it, users found a message stating that the system data had been copied and deleted and was in the hands of the attackers.
“Contact us if you want the data back”, says the message.
Minutes later, the message disappeared, but the site remained down.
In a statement, the Ministry of Health said that the attack “temporarily compromised some systems in the folder, such as e-SUS Notifica, Information System of the National Immunization Program (SI-PNI), ConectaSUS and features such as the issuance of the National Certificate of Covid-19 Vaccination and the National Digital Vaccination Card, which are currently unavailable.”
There is no forecast when the service will return to normal.​
On social networks, people who managed to access the Connect SUS application report the disappearance of information about vaccination.
When you click on the vaccines item, the app displays the message: “Wait up to 10 business days for your vaccine record to appear on ConectaSUS, if not, look for the health establishment where you took the vaccine and request registration in the National Data Network in Health (RNDS), of the Ministry of Health”.
There are also reports of difficulty logging in and using other functions.
Health minister Marcelo Queiroga said he hoped to find and “exemplify” the perpetrators of the attack. He also stated that the folder has a way to retrieve the information.
“But these data will not be lost. The Ministry of Health has all the data. It’s just a matter of recovering this data,” he told TV Globo.
According to leaf he found out, however, even if the ministry has backed up the information, it is possible that not all data were up to date in the backup. So, right now, the government is doing a sort of “scan” to see if anything has been lost.
Members of the ministry said that the attack has not interfered with the government’s operational routine, given that it does not depend on the affected systems.
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