Health Care Official's Emails and Passwords Dumped Online by Hackers

Thousands of emails and passwords of health care workers and officials’ have been leaked by hackers and shared on Twitter as the company scrambles to contain the situation. 

Thousands of Accounts Dumped 

Twitter has been actively working to remove the leaked lists of email addresses and passwords of people from the National Institute of Health (NIH), the World Health Organization (WHO), and others. The list was first posted on 4chan, and later to Pastebin, which quickly made its way to Twitter. 

Site Intelligence Group did not say who was responsible for the post or how real it was, although Site’s director Rita Katz said on Twitter that the list was being used as a “harassment campaign” by far-right extremists, giving a little more details of the research on the case. 

The research so far has yielded the following numbers: 

- 9,938 emails and passwords from the National Institute of Health (NIH) 

- 6,857 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 

- 5,120 from the World Bank 

- 2,732 from the World Health Organization 

- 269 from the Gates Foundation 

- 21 from the Wuhan Institute of Virology 

None of the organizations responded to the BBC’s requests for comment, with the exception of the NIH, who said they were looking into the leak.