On 20 January 2022, the

International Committee of the Red Cross The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC; french: Comité international de la Croix-Rouge) is a humanitarian organization which is based in Geneva, Switzerland, and it is also a three-time Nobel Prize Laureate. State parties (signa ...

made an appeal to hackers who had stolen private data, saying they would speak "directly and confidentially" to those responsible for the attack. The hackers had stolen private data on more than 515,000 vulnerable people from at least 60 Red Cross and Red Crescent societies. So far there is no proof that the data has been leaked, but the ICRC said that their gravest concern was the risk posed by exposing the data. The attack was aimed at a Swiss contractor that stores the data. The perpetrators have not been identified.

Impact

The ICRC has suspended access to compromised computer systems which are part of the

Restoring Family Links Restoring Family Links (RFL) is a program of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, more specifically the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies involving activities that aim to prev ...

programme, which was targeted in the attack. A spokesman said "We will do our utmost to ensure some business continuity and a resumption of services as soon as possible".

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