Cyberattack on ICRC exposes data on 515,000 vulnerable people
Al JazeeraThe International Committee of the Red Cross says the intruders and their motive for the hacking are unknown. The International Committee of the Red Cross says there has been a hacking attack on its data servers that compromised confidential information on more than half a million vulnerable people. The Geneva-based agency said on Wednesday the breach by unknown intruders this week affected data on more than 515,000 people “including those separated from their families due to conflict, migration and disaster, missing persons and their families, and people in detention”. “An attack on the data of people who are missing makes the anguish and suffering for families even more difficult to endure,” Robert Mardini, the ICRC’s director-general, said in a statement. “We are all appalled and perplexed that this humanitarian information would be targeted and compromised.” External contractor ICRC said the breach targeted an external contractor in Switzerland that stores data for the humanitarian organisation, and there was no indication the information had been publicly shared or leaked.
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