Brazilian Ministry of Health suffers cyberattack and COVID-19 vaccination data vanishes

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Angelica Mari

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Angelica Mari, Contributing Editor

Angelica Mari

Angelica Mari
Contributing Editor

Angelica Mari is a Brazil-based technology journalist. She started working at age 15 as a computer instructor and started writing professionally about technology two years later.

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Posted in Brazil Tech

on December 10, 2021

| Topic: Security

Websites under Brazil’s Ministry of Health (MoH) have suffered a major ransomware attack that resulted in the unavailability of COVID-19 vaccination data of millions of citizens.

Following that attack that took place at around 1 am today, all of MoH’s websites including ConecteSUS, which tracks the trajectory of citizens in the public healthcare system, became unavailable. This includes the COVID-19 digital vaccination certificate, which is available via the ConecteSUS app.

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