Cyberattack on Norway's aid agency may have exposed user data
BREACHNoradredteam/daily · 2 sources
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What happened
Norad has disclosed an intrusion into its Grants Portal, which it operates and which is also used by Norway's Ministry of Foreign Affairs to collect aid funding applications. The agency says names and email addresses of 20,614 registered users may have been taken, and that the data may cover all users; the scope is described as possible rather than confirmed. No CVEs, affected software versions or technical indicators are given in the available text. Defenders should treat registered-user contact data as potentially exposed and review portal access logs.
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