A group of environmental hacktivists are targeting mining and oil companies in Central and South America, leaking their internal emails.
A hacktivist group claims to have hacked several mining and oil companies, as well as government agencies in Central and South America in an attempt to “sabotage” western companies and corporations that exploit the region’s natural resources.
The group, which calls itself Guacamaya, the Mayan name for a macaw parrot, claims to have hacked a Colombian government agency that administers and regulates hydrocarbon materials, the Guatemalan Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, the Colombian oil company New Granada Energy Corporation, the Brazilian mining company Tejucana, the Venezuelan oil company Oryx Resources, the Ecuadorian state-owned mining company ENAMI EP, Quiborax, the third largest boric acid producer in the world based in Chile.
