Cybersecurity
Hackers Target Top Officials at World Health Organization
- Nation-state hackers among those attacking global health group
- WHO has doubled security staff, added outside firms to help
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Top officials at the World Health Organization are being targeted by hackers as they work on the global response to the coronavirus pandemic.
The WHO’s security team has seen an increasing number of attempted cyber-attacks on the officials since mid-March, according to the organization’s chief information officer, Bernardo Mariano. WHO itself hasn’t been hacked, but employee passwords have leaked through other websites, he said.