Norway’s national aid agency, Norad, has confirmed that cyber criminals broke into its systems, stealing information about each and every registered user of its grant portal.
Norad, which coordinates Norway’s assistance for foreign development, said that 20,614 registered individuals had their names and email addresses swiped, and information from at least three organizations’ applications was “misdirected.”
The agency clarified that the grant portal, which was launched in 2017, has 20,614 registered users, meaning all were affected, across 12,511 organizations.
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Source: The Register
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