Red Cross says server hack was ‘highly sophisticated’

The ICRC revealed on Jan 19 that it had been the victim of a massive act of computer piracy, during which hackers seized the personal and confidential data of more than 515,000 vulnerable people, some of whom had fled conflicts, had gone missing or were prisoners. — Reuters

GENEVA: The cyberattack on the International Committee of the Red Cross bore the hallmarks of a state or a group with equivalent means, the ICRC’s data protection chief said on Feb 7.

Massimo Marelli said he was “told from the people who are doing the forensics analysis that it was a highly sophisticated and targeted operation”.