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Vaccination data targeted in Brazil hacker attack

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Brazil's health ministry said its website was hit yesterday by a hacker attack that took several systems down, including one with information about the national immunisation program and another used to issue digital vaccination certificates.

The government put off for a week implementing new health requirements for travelers arriving in Brazil due to the attack. "The health ministry reports that in the early hours of Friday it suffered an incident that temporarily compromised some of its systems ...which are currently unavailable," it said in a statement.

Police said they were investigating the attack. The alleged hackers, calling themselves Lapsus$ Group "posted a message on the website saying that internal data had been copied and

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