🚨 STRATEGIC CYBER INTELLIGENCE ALERT: MASSIVE EXPOSURE OF REAL IPs AND GEOLOCATION — IN THE "STATE 51" POLL (VENEZUELA) 🇻🇪 ⚠️ THE "PROXY99" THREAT ACTOR CLAIMS TO HAVE LEAKED DATA ON 47,000 PARTICIPANTS IN A VIRAL POLL [STATUS: NO PII VISIBLE, IP DETAILS UNCONFIRMED] Through proactive monitoring of clandestine cybercriminal forums (Breached), a post by the threat actor Proxy99 was detected today. The attacker has released a dataset containing detailed information on participants in the viral poll related to the "Venezuela State 51" digital opinion campaign (vestado51.com). The leak exposes the real IP addresses, exact voting timestamps, cities, countries, and precise geographic coordinates (latitude and longitude) of more than 47,000 users who interacted with the portal. 🎯 Affected Entity: Users of the vestado51.com platform (Digital consultation/opinion platform). 👤 Threat Actor: Proxy99 📂 Volume Claimed: 47,000 records of unique IP addresses and associated metadata. ⚙️ Incident Type: Web Application Database Exfiltration / Privacy Breach. 📊 TECHNICAL BREAKDOWN AND EXPOSED FIELDS The leaked database reveals that the survey website recorded and stored detailed connection metadata for each visitor who cast a vote: 🌐 Actual IP Addresses (ip / ip_address): Exposure of both IPv4 (e.g., ) and IPv6 (e.g., :...) addresses, either bypassing or directly recording the users' originating connection. 📍 Geolocation and Geographic Coordinates (latitude / longitude): The data dump includes detailed latitude and longitude coordinates with up to four decimal places of precision (e.g., latitude: , longitude: for Caracas). This allows for a very close approximation of the user's physical connection node (home, office, or cell tower). 📈 Time Traceability (latest_vote_at / timestamp): Recording of exact timestamps in milliseconds of voting activity. MITIGATIONS AND PREVENTIVE RECOMMENDATIONS 🛑 Residential IP Renewal: Users who suspect they participated in the consultation are advised to restart their home routers to force their ISP to assign a new dynamic IP address. 🔒 VPN Implementation: The use of virtual private networks (VPNs) is imperative to hide your real IP address when interacting with opinion polls or highly sensitive public consultation portals. ⚡ MONITORING AND EVALUATION 🌐 Intelligence System: analyzer.vecert.io 🛡️ Quickly assess your website's security with: monitor.vecert.io #CyberSecurity #DataBreach #Venezuela #State51 #Proxy99 #Geolocation #PrivacyLeak #FinancialProfiling #ThreatIntelligence #CyberAlert #VECERT #Infosec
