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| − | |description=A leak or hack of tens of thousands of Email account details related to the [[WIV]], [[NIH]], [[Gates foundation]]. Reported by [[SITE]]. Corporate media not very interested.
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| − | Around 20,000-25,000 of sets of [[email]] addresses and passwords were released online by 21 April 2020.<ref>https://fort-russ.com/2020/04/confirmed-hackers-strike-and-leak-bill-gates-who-and-wuhan-lab-emails/</ref> {{CCM}} did not report the story widely. "Robert Potter, an independent Australian cybersecurity expert, said the data was real as he could verify some of the email IDs and passwords of WHO."<ref>https://www.thequint.com/tech-and-auto/tech-news/gates-foundation-who-among-25000-email-ids-and-passwords-hacked</ref>
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| − | ==Affected organisations==
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| − | [[NIH]], [[CDC]], [[World Bank]], [[WHO]], [[Gates Foundation]], [[WIV]] (in that order)
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| − | ==Reporting==
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| − | *The [[Washington Post]]'s version of the story was written by [[Souad Mekhennet]] and [[Craig Timberg]].<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/04/21/nearly-25000-email-addresses-passwords-allegedly-nih-who-gates-foundation-are-dumped-online/</ref>
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| − | *[[Vice]] wrote that ''Neo-Nazis Are Spreading a List of Emails and Passwords for Gates Foundation and WHO Employees''.<ref>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/akwxzp/neo-nazis-are-spreading-a-list-of-emails-and-passwords-for-gates-foundation-and-who-employees</ref><ref>https://www.businessinsider.com/neo-nazis-alleged-email-addresses-who-gates-foundation-nih-leak-2020-4</ref>
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| − | *The [[Seattle Times]] did relate the story as well.<ref>https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/email-addresses-and-passwords-allegedly-from-nih-who-and-gates-foundation-are-dumped-online/</ref>
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| − | ==Detection==
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| − | The leak was initially reported by [[SITE Intelligence]].<ref>https://ent.siteintelgroup.com/Dark-Web-and-Cyber-Security/lists-of-alleged-who-gates-foundation-and-other-organizations-email-addresses-passwords-posted-online.html</ref><ref>https://managedtechservices.com/2020/04/23/email-credentials-of-who-the-gates-foundation-other-leaked-online/</ref> The data was posted to [[4chan]] first.<ref>https://cybersecuritymag.com/gates-foundation-nih-who-emails-hacked-and-posted-online/</ref>
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| − | ==Outcome==
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| − | Since no more information related to these [[e-mail]] accounts was released, the leak was possibly only intended to show that a breach has taken place and how much time has passed since then.
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