Guacamaya Leaks: 5 revelations of the massive hacking suffered by the Mexican army

Millions of emails and military documents from Mexico have been exposed.

The group of hackers calling itself Guacamaya assures that it infiltrated a server of the Secretary of National Defense (Sedena) and extracted 6 terabytes of internal and confidential information.

That’s roughly triple the amount of information disclosed in the Pandora Papers that exposed global financial secrets in 2021.

In the case of the Sedena, it is military information compiled over the last decade , with a level of detail of the militia’s operational and intelligence activities that had never before been made public in Mexico.

Due to the high sensitivity and details of its content, say those who have had access to the information, it has the potential to generate serious problems for public security and the Mexican government if the documents fall into the wrong hands.

“The serious thing is that not only do emails come from the army, but from those who answer. From armies of other countries, embassies, foreign intelligence, many foreign governments,” Alberto Escorcia, a journalist specializing in cyberattacks, explains to BBC Mundo.

“This is an X-ray of practically how an army works. In other words, I think that if someone wants to know how an army works and its relationship with power, it is detailed minute by minute.