Chile's ANCI logged 566 incident reports in 2026

Chile’s National Cybersecurity Agency received 566 reports of incidents with significant impact between January and Oct. 15, 2026, according to coverage cited by HackerCar. Of that total, 17 were tied to electric transmission companies. At the same time, Escudo Minerva brought together more than 600 people in a technical exercise that simulated a cyberattack against telecommunications and other critical infrastructure components, without involving a real incident.

What do the ANCI reports show?

The figure of 566 reports highlights how many incidents with significant impact reached the ANCI in less than 10 months of 2026, according to the available coverage. The most specific figure in that breakdown was 17 reports linked to electric transmission companies.

Garrigues, in a later post, said the ANCI had received 324 reports of incidents with significant impact during the first half of 2026 from essential service providers and operators of vital importance. The same source also said a portal had been launched for reporting incidents and vulnerabilities, including anonymously under a safe-harbor mechanism. That figure is attributed by the source itself and was not independently confirmed in the available material.

What was Escudo Minerva?

Escudo Minerva was a technical exercise carried out in Chile, where more than 600 people simulated a cyberattack against telecommunications and worked with models or simulators for power generation, a gas plant, a data center and a water plant, according to El Rancahuaso. The activity was not a real attack.

El Concuente described the event as the third edition of the National Crisis Management Exercise, led by CiberLab, the UC Anacleto Angelini Innovation Center and the Chilean Army. According to that coverage, the in-person portion involved four-person teams from more than 200 institutions, universities and companies, which faced simulated scenarios affecting a city’s telecommunications.

A specialized bulletin added that the simulation took place on Nov. 5 at the Chilean Army War Academy and was organized by CiberLab, the UC Program in Law, Science and Technology, the UC Innovation Center and the Army. That source said participants had to coordinate executive response, communications, legal affairs and technology in the face of a simulated critical infrastructure crisis.