Hundreds of e-mail addresses and passwords of employees of the United Nations are leaked on Pastebin. In the list there are also data from Dutch institutions. The login details would, however, be out of date.
The so-called hackgroepering Teampoison has obtained the accounts, allegedly from an old server of the United Nations. Exactly how that work is gone, is unclear. That server is now offline, and had a spokesman to the BBC.
A large number of accounts is derived from the United Nations Development Programme. These data were allegedly, since 2007 on the server. Some of the accounts had no passwords. It would, however, go to old data that are no longer used. The spokesman stressed that the website of the United Nations Development Programme is not vulnerable.
In the leaked list there are also data from several Dutch institutions, including the University of Amsterdam. The university would not confirm whether the details are correct. “It comes to personal data. Since we bring nothing to the outside,” says spokesperson Laura Erdtsieck. Except the university of amsterdam, the Radboud University and the Central Bureau for the Statistics in the list. All of these accounts are probably not used anymore; from a control Tweakers.net it appears that the login details are not working.
Teampoison is not an unknown name. The hackgroepering was previously associated with the cracking of the different sites of LulzSec. In addition, the hackers previously the website of BlackBerry cracked and information of the former British prime minister Tony Blair put it online. Teampoison would currently have phrases they want to put on the banking system.