The International Committee of the Red Cross has been the victim of a cyber-attack in which hackers seized the data of more than 515,000 extremely vulnerable people, some of whom had fled conflicts. “A sophisticated cybersecurity attack against computer servers hosting information held by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was detected this week,” it said in a statement. There was no evidence so far that the compromised information had been leaked or put in the public domain. The data originated from at least 60 Red Cross and Red Crescent national societies 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.

Source: The Guardian January 20, 2022 17:41 UTC