And Venezuela is very very corrupt country. No cyberattack needed when you can pay $10,000 - $100,000 for a dude to pull the lever or to forget to pull the lever and literally 99.99% of people in a country do it.
Though these theories are easy to explain because people in mostly US community like HN have no understanding of what total corruption look like in a shit hole countries.
After waiting for 3 years, I gave up ended up paying one of their technicians I randomly found working in the street. He gave me a phone line that apparently used to belong to a taxi company, judging by all the wrong number calls I got. All that just to get 4mbps DSL service in 2019.
Last year, out of nowhere, I finally got a call from the company saying they were ready to install it.
Thankfully, a bunch of companies appeared out of nowhere (a lot of them with links to people in the govt, surprise) in 2020 and we got fiber.
Oh and a couple of years ago, my parents "lost" their phone line and have been without POTS ever since. Maybe it's karma for me paying for a phone line all those years ago...
2. It was not in any way related to this BGP, of which, as someone in networking, looks like a simple and fairly common mistake. It wouldn't really buy them anything anyway, the breach happened 6+ months before.