Unknown 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 the 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 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, appear to have first been posted to 4chan, a message board notorious for its hateful and extreme political commentary, and later to Pastebin, a text storage site, to Twitter and to far-right extremist channels on Telegram, a messaging app.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 25 2020, @09:57AM (2 children)
Could a person really be smart enough to hack these orgs, but still believe the conspiracy theories? Or does security just suck everywhere now?
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Saturday April 25 2020, @03:15PM
Both. But notice the second one makes the first one more likely.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 26 2020, @01:34PM
The smart hackers get kudos and cushy jobs. Script kiddies use the smart hackers work to search for conspiracies.