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Surveilled, targeted, and now hacked: WFP must protect Palestinians in Gaza after massive data breach

Occurred
Jun 17, 2026
Published
Jun 17, 2026
Source
Access Now

Summary

We, the undersigned civil society organizations, condemn in the strongest possible terms the cyberattack on the World Food Programme (WFP) that took place on May 14, 2026, exposing the personal data of 600,000 Palestinian households in Gaza. The post Surveilled, targeted, and now hacked: WFP must protect Palestinians in Gaza after massive data breach appeared first on Access Now.

Tags

  • data protection
  • humanitarian aid

Classification

Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%

Rationale: Massive data breach exposing 600,000 households' personal data constitutes a severe privacy violation.

Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8

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