Amnesty International Takes a While to Disclose the Data Breach From December

 

Amnesty International Australia notified supporters via email last Friday that their data might be at risk owing to “anomalous activity” discovered in its IT infrastructure. 

The email was sent extremely late in the day or week, but it was also sent very far after the behaviour was discovered. The email, which Gizmodo Australia saw, claims that the activity was discovered towards the end of last year. 

“As soon as we became aware of this activity on 3 December 2022, we engaged leading external cyber security and forensic IT advisors to determine if any unauthorised access to our IT environment had occurred,” Amnesty International Australia stated.

“We acted quickly to ensure the AIA IT environment was secure and contained, put additional security measures in place and commenced an extensive investigation.” 

Amnesty International said that while it took the organisation some time to notify

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