Pleading with hackers, the Red Cross is asking actors not to sell or use stolen data

Our very own Michael in Tennessee sent this article some days ago and I’m finally getting a chance to read it. Its an interesting article which I am not sure if the tactic is going to work.

Its unfortunate that the Red Cross stored data in Switzerland which got stolen. Sadly, its the world we live in. As some of us have said on the podcast, we feel its going to get worse before it gets better.

The opening paragraph of this article says:

The Red Cross on Wednesday pleaded with the threat actors behind a cyberattack that stole the personal data of about 515,000 people who used a program that works to reunite family members separated by conflict, disaster or migration.

A subsequent paragraph which has linked material says that whoever is responsible is possibly going to hurt innocent people who are already suffering for whatever reasons the Red Cross is involved with dealing with them.

According to another paragraph:

Wednesday’s release said the personal data was obtained through the hack of a Switzerland-based subcontractor that stores data for the Red Cross. The data was compiled by at least 60 different Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies worldwide. The ICRC said it has no “immediate indications as to who carried out this cyber-attack” and is so far unaware of any of the compromised information being leaked or shared publicly.

That’s nice, we don’t know if its shared yet, and I believe the possibility is out there that it is. Its probably on the underground by now, and we as normal visitors on the web don’t have access to that.

I do know someone who has used services like TOR, but he tells me that the usage of such sites are the same as it would be on yours and mine, and access technology appears to work with at least TOR.

There is other information including links to other information. The article we’re taking from today is titled Red Cross implores hackers not to leak data for 515k “highly vulnerable people” and comes from Ars Technica.

I know I still have backdated stuff to post, and I’ll look to see how revelent they are before I post it. The fact is that this is a bit backdated as when it was sent to us, but it isn’t necessarily months old. I have stuff going back to December of last year that i’ll see if there is still revelent info from and try to get some of that posted if not talked about somehow. This should be, and let the boards begin.