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Cyber attack exposes Red Cross data

Hackers broke into the ICRC's computer servers and gained access to confidential information on more than half a million "highly vulnerable people."

,   and  John Heilprin
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The Geneva headquarters of the International Commmittee of the Red Cross
The Geneva headquarters of the International Commmittee of the Red Cross (AN/J. Heilprin)

GENEVA (AN) — Hackers broke into computer servers hosting data belonging to the International Committee of the Red Cross and gained access to confidential information on more than half a million "highly vulnerable people," the ICRC said on Wednesday.

The data breach compromised at least 60 Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies around the world. It affects 515,000 people who have been "separated from their families due to conflict, migration and disaster, missing persons and their families, and people in detention," ICRC officials said.

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Science & Technology — International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) — Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) — U.N. Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) — U.N. Office of Information and Communications Technology (OICT) — United Nations (U.N.) — Europe

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