Personal data of several hundred thousand refugees and missing persons were stolen.
Le Monde with AFP
Personal data of 515,000 “highly vulnerable” people have been stolen on a server of a Red Cross provider, announced the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Red Crescent (ICRC). The stolen data concern, among other things, people who have been “separated from their families because of a war, migration or a natural disaster, missing or imprisoned”, details the organization.
This information has been stealth by a “sophisticated” cyber attack, which affected a Swiss supplier of the Red Cross. The origin of the attack is unknown, but the nature of the stolen data suggests that it can have been conducted by a nation-state, or for more political than collapse reasons. The database contains data from about sixty local ICRC antennas.
Call to pirates
“Although we did not know who is responsible for this attack, or why they led him, we make that appeal, writes the Director General of the ICRC, Robert Mardini, in a statement. Your actions could potentially cause to cause Even more harm and pain to those who have already endured unspeakable suffering. Do not share, do not sell, do not disclose and use these data in any way whatsoever. “
“Every day, the movement of the Red Cross and Red Crescent helps to gather an average of twelve people with their families. This represents a dozen happy family meetings every day. Cyber attacks like this one put in Peril This essential work, “said Mardini.