American touting covid conspiracies probably posted WHO, Gates Foundation passwords online

An American touting conspiracy theories about the spread of the coronavirus was the likely source of an incident in which nearly 25,000 credentials from the World Health Organization, the Gates Foundation and other institutions fighting the pandemic were posted to the Internet last week, new research concludes.

The research, by the SITE Intelligence Group, which revealed the incident in a report last week, concluded that the emails and passwords posted online were not from a recent hack. Rather, the credentials came from a larger set of hacked materials originally put online in 2016.

SITE, based in Bethesda, Md., concluded that whoever posted the credentials last week was hoping to inspire a new wave of intrusions that might reveal information about how the targeted institutions responded to the pandemic. Posting personal information online is called “doxing” and typically is regarded as a form of harassment or a way to incite harassment.

Details about who posted the emails and passwords remain scant, and SITE has not learned the real-world identity of the culprit. Based on comments and links on various social media sites that appear to be from the same person, however, SITE determined that the initial poster probably was an American who espoused conspiracy theories popular on the political right, including that government officials and news organizations are exaggerating covid-19 death counts to manipulate the public.

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Corona-Hypers using the old Conspiracy Theory Card ...

Just because someone believes in one so-called Conspiracy Theory, does not mean they believe in every so-called Conspiracy Theory.

And Who calls What a 'Conspiracy Theory'?

If the Corona Skeptics are on 'The Political Right' and engaging in what the Corona-Hypers are calling 'Covid Conspiracies', then I'm proud to be a Conservative, because much of what The Political Left, aka Corona-Hypers, are calling 'Conspiracy Theories' are in actuality 'The Corona Truth'.