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Team Poison Hacks UN, Leaks Usernames, Passwords

November 30, 2011
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PCMag: A group of hackers who call themselves TeaMp0isoN (Team Poison) appear to have hacked into the servers for several United Nations (UN) organizations and posted the data they found to Pastebin. “The TeaMp0isoN hacking gang has leaked over one hundred usernames, email addresses and passwords that appear to belong to individuals at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), UNICEF, World Health Organisation (WHO) and other groups,” said Graham Cluley of security firm Sophos.

The UN says it believes the data is outdated information from an old servers, but TeaMp0isoN claims the data is current.

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