The United Nations has been hacked.
The Associated Press has obtained an internal confidential document from the United Nations Office of Information and Technology that says dozens of servers were “compromised” at the U.N. offices in Geneva and Vienna.
That includes the U.N. human rights office, which has often been a lightning rod of criticism from autocratic governments for its calling-out of rights abuses.
A U.N. official speaking on condition of anonymity told the AP on Tuesday the attack that first turned up over the summer appeared “sophisticated” and that the extent of the damage remained unclear.
System security has been reinforced.
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