Arturo Sánchez Jiménez and Alma E. Muñoz
La Jornada Newspaper
Saturday, October 25, 2025, p. 4
The National Transparency Platform (PNT), delivered by the defunct National Institute of Transparency, Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data (INAI), was “contaminated, incomplete and plagued by computer viruses,” which forced the federal government to rebuild it almost from scratch.
This was revealed yesterday by the head of the Anti-Corruption Secretariat, Raquel Buenrostro, who at the same time warned of the need to reform the Federal Supervision and Accountability Law so that the Superior Audit of the Federation (ASF) has defined deadlines to close its investigations and prevent corruption cases from remaining open indefinitely.
In the usual press conference of President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo at the National Palace, Buenrostro explained that upon receiving the INAI systems they detected a serious technological vulnerability. “There were portals with .org endings mixed with the official .gob.mx sites; some led to betting, casino or online sales pages and were full of viruses and Trojans,” he explained.
For this reason, he added, it was necessary to “debug the entire system”, apply cryptographic validators to guarantee the authenticity of the data and create a clone of the platform to continue operating safely.
In addition to the technical problems, the delivery-reception of the INAI was deficient: many files were incomplete or missing, and there were documents that did not correspond to the official record. “They gave us boxes that were not related and original files were missing. Much of that damage is not repairable because they simply did not reappear,” he said.
The secretary emphasized that, despite the difficulties, the new platform is more stable and offers better mechanisms for searching and tracking applications. “Now you can see the entire flow of a resolution, from the complaint to its compliance. The INAI never published that.”
