Seattle Times kirjoitti:Email addresses and passwords allegedly from NIH, WHO and Gates Foundation, are dumped online
April 21, 2020 at 6:18 pm | Updated April 21, 2020 at 7:32 pm
By Craig Timberg and SOUAD MEKHENNET
The Washington Post
Anonymous activists have posted nearly 25,000 email addresses and passwords allegedly belonging to the National Institutes of Health, the World Health Organization, the Gates Foundation and other groups working to combat the coronavirus pandemic, according to SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors online extremism and terrorist groups.
While SITE was unable to verify whether the email addresses and passwords were authentic, the group said the information was released on Sunday and Monday and almost immediately used to foment attempts at hacking and harassment by far-right extremists. An Australian cybersecurity expert, Robert Potter, said he was able to verify that the WHO email addresses and passwords were real.
The lists, whose origins are unclear, first appear to have been posted to 4chan, a message board notorious for its hateful and extreme political commentary, and later to Pastebin, a text storage site, Twitter and to far-right extremist channels on Telegram, a messaging app.
“Neo-Nazis and white supremacists capitalized on the lists and published them aggressively across their venues,” said Rita Katz, SITE’s executive director. “Using the data, far-right extremists were calling for a harassment campaign while sharing conspiracy theories about the coronavirus pandemic. The distribution of these alleged email credentials were just another part of a months-long initiative across the far right to weaponize the covid-19 pandemic.”
The report by SITE, based in Bethesda, Maryland, said the largest group of alleged emails and passwords was from the NIH, with 9,938 found on lists posted online. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had the second-highest number, with 6,857. The World Bank had 5,120. The list of WHO addresses and passwords totaled 2,732.
Smaller numbers of entries were listed for the Gates Foundation, a private philanthropic group whose co-founder, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, last week announced $150 million in new funding to combat the pandemic. Also targeted was the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a Chinese research center in the city where the pandemic began that has been accused of a role in triggering the outbreak.
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Tuntemattomat vauhkoilijat ovat siis uutisoinnin mukaan tehneet tietomurtoja ja julkaisseet liki 25 000 sähköpostiosoitetta salasanoineen. Murtokohteita olivat WHO, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ja National Institutes of Health. Australialainen tietoturva-asiantuntija on vahvistanut, etä ainakin WHO:n sähköpostiosoitteet ja salasanat ovat aitoja.
Tällainen tietomurto pitäisi olla mahdoton nykyaikana, koska missään asiansa osaavassa organisaatiossa salasanoja ei tallenneta mihinkään.
Vaikka artikkelissa mainittu 4chan on täysin anonyymi hupisivusto, toimittaja on ottanut etusormensa syvältä sieraimestaan ja kääntänyt sen osoittamaan
äärioikeistoa. Toivottavasti toinen ura on jo mietitty valmiiksi.
