Dozens of servers were hacked at the U.N. offices in Geneva and Vienna, including the U.N. human rights office, according to a confidential document reviewed by AP. Damage remained unclear, but the U.N. says system security has been reinforced.
FILE - In this June 18, 2014, file photo flags fly outside the United Nations building in Vienna, Austria. An internal confidential document from the United Nations, leaked to The New Humanitarian and seen by The Associated Press, says that dozens of servers were “compromised” at offices in Geneva and Vienna.
The level of sophistication was so high that it was possible a state-backed actor might have been behind it, the official said.“We were hacked,” U.N. human rights office spokesman Rupert Colville. “We face daily attempts to get into our computer systems. This time, they managed, but it did not get very far. Nothing confidential was compromised.”
“There is no indication that data was exfiltrated from Vienna,” he wrote. The U.N.‘s Vienna office is home notably to the U.N.’s Office on Drugs and Crime. Jake Williams, CEO of data firm Rendition Infosec and a former U.S. government hacker, said of the U.N. report: “The intrusion definitely looks like espionage.”
Williams said the report showed the hackers eliminated evidence of what they may have taken through the bulk erasure of network logs. But by doing so, they left their tracks. The most skilled hackers - including U.S., Russian and Chinese agents —can cover their tracks by editing those logs instead of wiping them clean.
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