Overview
- El Peruano’s website appeared blank or altered for hours on September 28, blocking access to Normas Legales during the rollout of the SBS rules for the eighth AFP withdrawal.
- Deface Perú claimed responsibility on Telegram and posted protest messages aligned with recent Generación Z demonstrations against the government and Congress.
- El Peruano disputed that it was hacked and attributed the outage to unusually high traffic from users seeking AFP-related information.
- Authorities and technical teams have opened investigations, with telecom-sector sources reporting efforts to trace the access route and strengthen protections on state portals.
- Legal specialists note that a site outage does not invalidate published norms but can delay dissemination, a concern heightened by Deface Perú’s record of prior breaches including PNP intelligence data.