Security News > 2021 > January > United Nations data breach exposed over 100k UNEP staff records
Today, researchers have responsibly disclosed a security vulnerability by exploiting which they could access over 100,000 private employee records of United Nations Environmental Programme.
The data breach stemmed from exposed Git directories and credentials, which allowed the researchers to clone Git repositories and gather a large amount of personally identifiable information associated with UNEP employees.
Different PHP files exposed as a part of this data breach contained plaintext database credentials associated with other online systems of the UNEP and UN ILO. In addition, the publicly accessible.
Exfiltrated data contains over 100,000 employee records.
"Upon notification of the breach on 4 January 2021, the vulnerability was addressed within 12 hours. The breached data includes over 100,000 lines of information, including HR and travel details dating from 2015 to 2018.".
"UNEP is working with UN Secretariat cybersecurity experts to address the data breach and strengthen its IT security," a UNEP spokesperson told BleepingComputer.
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