Brazil's Ministry of Health Details

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    Brazil's Ministry of Health

    Brasília, Federal District, Brazil • 3400000 employees • Public Administration

    Industry

    Public Administration

    Security Incidents

    1

    Security Incidents

    Brazil's Ministry of Health Breach of Dec 2021
    Severity Score
    Significant

    Type

    Unknown

    Summary

    The first known cyberattack committed by Lapsus$ was against Brazil's Ministry of Health. The Ministry of Health website was taken down on Friday, 10 December around 1 AM. Lapsus$ left a message, "Contact us if you want your data back", along with their Telegram and e-mail addresses on the homepage of the website of the ministry[8] after exfiltrating and deleting 50 TB of data on internal servers. By Friday afternoon the message had been removed, but the website and user data in the "ConecteSUS" app, which provides Brazilians with COVID vaccination certificates, remained unavailable, causing d...
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