Almost 25,000 email addresses and passwords reportedly for groups like WHO and the Gates Foundation were dumped on the internet
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- The Washington Post reported that almost 25,000 email addresses and passwords allegedly belonging to organizations like the World Health Organization and the Gates Foundation were released by unknown parties on Sunday and Monday.
- The information was then used by hackers and far-right extremists to spread coronavirus conspiracy theories.
- Australian cybersecurity expert Robert Potter, who confirmed some of the addresses were authentic, also told The Washington Post that the WHO's password system was "appalling" with 48 people having "password" as their password.
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Almost 25,000 email addresses and passwords, allegedly belonging to organizations trying to combat the coronavirus, were dumped online by an unknown party, and have been used to spread coronavirus conspiracy theories. The authenticity of the addresses and passwords is not yet confirmed.
The Washington Post first reported the dumping of emails alleged to be from six organizations, all of which are related to fighting the coronavirus, on April 21. The groups were the World Health Organization (WHO), the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the World Bank, the US National Institutes of Health, the Gates Foundation, and the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
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