“ Staff at large, including me, were not informed,” said Geneva-based Ian Richards, president of the Staff Council at the United Nations. The hack was not severe at the U.N. human rights office, said its spokesman, Rupert Colville. The United Nations, and its human rights office, is particularly sensitive, and could be a tempting target. Dozens of independent human rights experts who work with the U.N. human rights office have greater leeway — and fewer political and financial ties to the governments that fund the United Nations and make up its membership — to denounce alleged rights abuses. Potentially affected, for example, are staff in the office of the special envoy for Syria carrying out sensitive investigations and human rights staffers interviewing witnesses.

Source: ABC News January 29, 2020 13:41 UTC