Passwords for WHO, CDC, Gates Foundation employees reportedly spread online
According to The Washington Post, nearly 25,000 email addresses and passwords have been issued online to employees of large public health organizations.
Angela Lang / CNET
Email addresses and passwords for nearly 25,000 high-profile healthcare organizations fighting the novel Corona virus According to a report released by, pandemics have been dropped online and spread via Twitter The Washington Post On Wednesday. The World Health Organization, the Centers for disease control and prevention, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the National Health Institute were among the groups reportedly affected by the exposed data, according to the paper.
SITE Intelligence GroupWho reports on the activities of extremist groups from around the world found the data and reported on its distribution, the paper said. It is unclear whether the data comes from breaches of systems in the affected groups or from previous data breaches by other systems. An Australian security researcher informed the post that the WHO passwords are used to log into employee emails. Email and password combinations for people at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a facility near the Chinese city where the disease was discovered, was also disseminated online.
The spread of the information takes place in the world’s battle against COVID-19, a potentially fatal event Respiratory disease caused by the novel corona virus. Worldwide, more than 2.6 million cases of the disease have been confirmed, and more than 182,000 people are said to have died Johns Hopkins University.
The WHO, CDC and World Bank, which were also reported to be affected, did not respond to requests for comments. The NIH declined to comment specifically on the incident, but said, “We are always working to ensure optimal cybersecurity for the NIH and take appropriate measures to address threats or concerns.”
The Gates Foundation said it is monitoring the situation. “We currently have no evidence of a data breach at the foundation,” the organization said in a statement. The Wuhan Institute of Virology did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
CNET found archived versions of some data. According to the post, a neo-Nazi group shared the information on Twitter and encouraged people to use the data to harass employees of the organizations concerned. Twitter said it was doing mass takedowns of URLs trying to spread the data.
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