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, @12:38PM (7 children)
So were Trump to snort some meth on the podium during the taking questions from journalists, would the world care?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 25 2020, @12:50PM (4 children)
The journalists would criticize him for irresponsibly promoting meth as a coronavirus cure.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 25 2020, @02:01PM (3 children)
First he would say he's recharging his life battery to fight the "China virus". Then snort the meth. Then he would blame Hilary for it and say that press was "Fake News" for reporting it.
Now how fucking sad is this that what I juts wrote is actually a possibility? And for the "Leader of the Free World".... American exceptionalism ... you see that in COVID numbers. Exceptional every fucking day.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday April 25 2020, @03:17PM (2 children)
So is getting clobbered by an antimatter asteroid.
(Score: 1) by leon_the_cat on Sunday April 26 2020, @12:07PM (1 child)
ok i'm glad someone could understand what that all meant.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday April 26 2020, @02:03PM
(Score: 4, Touché) by crafoo on Saturday April 25 2020, @02:34PM
I hope you don't think trump is the first president or candidate to abuse speed.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 25 2020, @04:11PM
Not if he started to make sense.