O federal governmentthrough the Ministry of Integration and Regional Development (MIDR), confirmed this Sunday (21) that the Federal Police (PF) is conducting an investigation into the false Civil Defense alert. In a note, the department announced that the Information about the episode will be released at the end of the investigation so as not to harm the progress of the work.
The ministry also said that the National Secretariat for Civil Protection and Defense (Sedec) is collaborating with the PF investigation about the possible hacker invasion of the Defense Civil Alert (DCA) system.
From Friday night (19) to Saturday morning (20), false messages were sent to mobile phone users from at least seven states plus the Federal District. In addition to the sound alert, the messages contained text that mentioned “alien invasion”, among others.
In a press conference on Saturday morning, the national secretary of Protection and Civil Defense of the Ministry of Integration and Regional Development, Wolnei Wolff, clarified that, .
“There were nine messages issued by Cell Broadcast [sistema implantado em 2025] and one via the SMS system [sistema utilizado desde 2014 e substituído no ano passado],” stated Wolff.
O Cell Broadcast It is the technology that directly accesses the cell phones of the population in risk areas. The technology allows alerts to arrive quickly and efficiently, without the need for an app or prior registration.
. In a note, the authority reported that, as far as is known so far, “the alerts in question did not go through the official channels of the system’s technical platform, operated by ABR Telecom (Brazilian Association of Telecommunications Resources)”.
With information from Agência Brasil
