The International Committee of the Red Cross has said the Cyber attack exposes data. The hackers broke into servers hosting its data and gained access to personal and confidential information on more than a half-million vulnerable people, some of whom had fled conflicts.
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.
Cyber attack exposes data
The Geneva-based agency said on Wednesday the breach by unknown intruders this week affected data about some 515,000 people “including those separated from their families due to conflict, migration, and disaster, missing persons and their families, and people in detention.”
It said the information originated in at least 60 Red Cross and Red Crescent chapters around the world.
“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.”
The ICRC said the breach forced it to shut down systems around its “Restoring Family Links” program, which aims to reunite family members separated by conflict, disaster, or migration.
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