UNDP Copenhagen IT breach leads to theft of HR and procurement data
The United Nations Development Programme's local IT infrastructure in Copenhagen was breached, and human resources and procurement information was stolen. UNDP launched an investigation into the incident, and the 8Base group claimed to have obtained personal information, accounting records, employment contracts and other material.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
- Incident type
- Ransomware
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Theft of sensitive information including human resources and procurement data
- Cause / method
- Ransomware attack involving a breach of local IT infrastructure in Copenhagen
- Location
- Denmark
Timeline
- It came to light that UNDP was investigating a ransomware attack involving data theft.
- Human resources and procurement information was stolen from local IT infrastructure in Copenhagen, and the 8Base group claimed to have obtained the data.
- It came to light that sensitive human resources information had been exposed in the breach of the Copenhagen office.
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