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Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/tech...y-nih-who-gates-foundation-are-dumped-online/Unknown activists have posted nearly 25,000 email addresses and passwords allegedly belonging to the National Institutes of Health, the World Health Organization, the Gates Foundation and other groups working to combat the coronavirus pandemic, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors online extremism and terrorist groups.
While SITE was unable to verify whether the email addresses and passwords were authentic, the group said the information was released Sunday and Monday and almost immediately used to foment attempts at hacking and harassment by far-right extremists. An Australian cybersecurity expert, Robert Potter, said he was able to verify that the WHO email addresses and passwords were real.
Even if this data breach is overstated, it's definitely going to cause a lot of conspiracy speculation, people posting misinformation to push an agenda, or just out of context information that can be interpreted in the eye of the beholder. Here are some early claims:
Source: https://twitter.com/Killionaire69/status/1252727608061710339?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1252727608061710339&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ibtimes.sg%2Fwho-wuhan-lab-hack-reveals-coronavirus-spliced-hiv-make-it-deadly-spread-using-dry-ice-43536
The screenshot doesn't have the text he has translated.
Source: https://twitter.com/HeisenburgK/status/1252715834004213760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1252715834004213760&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ibtimes.sg%2Fwho-wuhan-lab-hack-reveals-coronavirus-spliced-hiv-make-it-deadly-spread-using-dry-ice-43536
The 4chan post doesn't reference any emails and is from February 16th.
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