[1][2] Lenin Artieda suffered minor injuries when he plugged in a USB drive he had received at Ecuavisa in Guayaquil.
[1][2] Police carried out a controlled explosion on a similar device sent to TC Televisión, also in Guayaquil.
[1][2] Teleamazonas said that one of their journalists had received an anonymous envelope with a device inside that police confirmed contained explosives.
[1][2] Two of the devices were found at media outlets in Guayaquil, two in Quito and one at a package delivery company.
[3] The department of the attorney general of Ecuador confirmed that it had opened a terrorism investigation on 20 March 2023.