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Ethical Hackers Breach U.N., Access 100,000 Private Records

Hackers from the research group Sakura Samurai used a vulnerability in a GitHub directory that exposed WordPress DB and GitHub credentials, allowing access to numerous private records from the U.N .s Environment Program (UNEP) Hackers were able to access 102,000 travel records, more than 7,000 records of human resources nationality demographics; more than 1,000 generalized employee records. The records included the names, ID numbers, nationalities, genders, pay grades and a raft of other personal information.

Source: https://threatpost.com/hackers-breach-un-access-records/162944/

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