A National Secretariat for Civil Protection and Defense informed that it will activate the Federal Police to investigate an invasion and a probable hacker attack, in the early hours of this Saturday (20), which sent to thousands of Brazilians a “stern warning of misanthropy”.
A National Civil Defense and the Ministry of Integration and Regional Development informed that the platform sending the Civil Defense Alert was taken off the air after the incident and they intend to restart the system as quickly as possible, “when all safety conditions are reestablished”.
The tool Cellbroadcastused to send severe and extreme alerts, is managed by Anatel (National Telecommunications Agency).
The false alert with the word “misantropi4” was sent to cell phones in several states in Brazil. Initially, the message “extreme alert” was sent to devices in the state of Paraná, but a second warning was sent a few minutes later to cell phones in
According to the misanthropy means “horror of humanity or aversion to human nature” and, by extension, “a state characterized by deep sadness; depression, melancholy”; “tendency to avoid the company of other people or “.
OFFICIAL NOTE
The Civil Defense Alert sending platform was taken offline at 1:30 am this Saturday (20/6), after having suffered an invasion and sending an alert to several regions of the country, ordered remotely by someone outside the National Protection and Defense System…
— National Civil Defense (@defesacivilbr)
*Under the supervision of Nathalie Ayres
