Cyberattack disrupts Chile's National Accreditation Commission systems and accreditation workflows

Chile's Comisión Nacional de Acreditación confirmed that it had suffered a cyber intrusion, with data subsequently stolen and published in late September 2022 after a ransom demand. The commission's institutional account of its 2022 activity describes encrypted information and information-system unavailability lasting several days, requiring contingency processes for its accreditation and evaluation functions; those evaluations were not entirely suspended. Sources close to the agency placed the original compromise approximately in June 2022, rather than the September 14 date associated with an unverified LockBit leak-site listing. September 30 is recorded as the verified public-disclosure date because a precise compromise day is unavailable.