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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Stuti Mishra

Data of ‘highly vulnerable’ war victims compromised in massive Red Cross cyber attack

Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said it became a victim of a sophisticated cyber security attack this week, and personal details of highly vulnerable people were breached.

The attack compromised the personal data of more than 515,000 “highly vulnerable people”, including “those separated from their families due to conflict, migration and disaster, missing persons and their families, and people in detention”, the organisation said on Wednesday in a statement.

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