Santos Port Faces Cyberattack Claim as Authorities Urge Caution

Santos Port Faces Cyberattack Claim as Authorities Urge Caution
The suspected incident began after a power outage on Friday disabled servers at the Port of Santos, affecting its website, internal platforms and services used by customers. A group identifying itself as N0n claimed responsibility, but the Federal Police has opened an inquiry without treating that assertion as proof of an intrusion.

The investigative account stresses uncertainty over both the origin of the outage and its consequences. Federal Police said technical work must be completed before the failures can be attributed to a cyberattack, while the port authority has yet to establish whether outside parties accessed stored data or how extensive any compromise may have been. That caution sits alongside a tangible security response: Cesportos-SP, coordinated by the Federal Police, raised the port’s protection level to Level 2 after instability affected gate-access controls, increasing inspections and oversight.

The port authority’s account similarly avoids a definitive attribution, but puts greater weight on operational resilience. APS president Anderson Pomini said, “Often, when a system has some kind of problem, some hackers come forward saying they carried out an attack. So we are not certain. There are suspicions in that direction.”

APS says IT teams, outside contractors and the federal data-processing service are working to restore platforms from backups. Internet and telephone services were restored, though the website and some internal systems remained unavailable. Cargo movements, vessel arrivals and departures, and road access have continued, with some administrative work shifted to manual or alternative controls. The authority has also reinforced the Port Guard, while the National Data Protection Authority monitors measures intended to limit potential harm to data subjects.

Both accounts therefore describe an active security incident and an investigation, rather than a confirmed breach. The central difference is one of focus: investigators underline evidentiary limits, while port managers underline continuity as recovery proceeds.

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