Brazil Health Ministry Website Hit By Hackers, Vaccination Data Targeted

New submitter Unpopular Opinions writes: Brazil's health ministry reports that in the early hours of Friday it suffered an incident that temporarily compromised some of its systems, which are currently unavailable and/or being directed to other domains. The alleged hackers posted a message on the website saying that internal data had been copied and deleted. "Contact us if you want the data back," it said, including e-mail and Telegram contact info. Some of the systems affected by the hack included information about the national immunization program and another used to issue digital vaccination certificates. "The government put off for a week implementing new health requirements for travelers arriving in Brazil due to the attack," reports Reuters.

Re: I hear Brazilians are mixed humons

[LordofWinterfell]

That is the opposite of how genetics work. The wider the set of possible genes the better the outcomes are. âoePure Bloodâ is how all the bad things come out, like the Russian aristocracy.

Special kind of hell

[OffTheLip]

Seriously, what motivates these jerks to be such assholes?

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[DivineKnight]

I'm guessing money?

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[ArchieBunker]

Someone is going to be disappointed.

Brazil and vaccines.

[splutty]

I find this to be.. A little bit too coincidental. Considering the past year of Brazil handling vaccines, I wonder what kind of embarrassing things for the government 'just disappeared' because of this hack.

I have doubts..

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[phantomfive]

Considering the past year of Brazil handling vaccines

Brazil has a high vaccination rate.

Military force

[fermion]

These gangs are really locking to antagonize the nation states into responding with military action. This is a general unprovoked attack on a civilian population. Not just stealing data. Increasing if they are subject to some sort extrajudicial action, few will have any sympathy.

Its almost like ...

[MxMatrix]

... this is the way putin's russia says hello to the world.

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[phantomfive]

Why do you assume it was Russia? Brazil has their own strong homegrown hacker community.

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[AndyKron]

You must always assume it's Russia if you're still living in the McCarthy era.

Don't expect any help from above.

[AndyKron]

I think it's more newsworthy to start reporting on places that don't get hacked. They seem to be in the minority these days.