{"slug": "world-food-programme-breach-exposes-data-of-600k-vulnerable-gazan-families", "title": "World Food Programme breach exposes data of 600k vulnerable Gazan families", "summary": "A data breach at the World Food Programme has exposed the personal information of approximately 600,000 families receiving aid in Gaza. The incident compromised sensitive data of vulnerable individuals in the famine-threatened, war-torn territory, though the agency has assured recipients that support will continue.", "body_md": "**SPONSORED LINKS**\n\n### MOST POPULAR\n\n## EVENTS\n\n-\n### Overcoming the trade-offs in data sovereignty\n\nWhat does data sovereignty actually mean for your network, which trade-offs are unavoidable? 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So is its DRAM bill\n\nForecasts earnings well ahead of expectations, even as it taps credit facilities to lock in memory supply\n\n-\nSaas\n\n#### Capita £370M bid 40% under UK.gov estimate for Oracle HR and finance system project, court case reveals\n\nCost model designed to protect against low-cost bid bias, claims rival\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### Council in UK's City of York outs hundreds of disabled residents with a single email blunder\n\nBlue Badge holders exposed to each other after BCC function proves too complex\n\n[FOSS](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/FOSS)\n\n-\n#### World Food Programme breach exposes data of 600k vulnerable Gazan families\n\nThose receiving aid in the famine-threatened, war-torn territory told support will remain\n\n-\n#### Gigabyte packs 40 Intel Lunar Lake PCs in a pizza box\n\nWho needs one big CPU when you could have dozens of little ones?\n\n-\n#### Raspberry Pi's profits are up. So is its DRAM bill\n\nForecasts earnings well ahead of expectations, even as it taps credit facilities to lock in memory supply\n\n-\n#### Capita £370M bid 40% under UK.gov estimate for Oracle HR and finance system project, court case reveals\n\nCost model designed to protect against low-cost bid bias, claims rival\n\n-\n#### Council in UK's City of York outs hundreds of disabled residents with a single email blunder\n\nBlue Badge holders exposed to each other after BCC function proves too complex\n\n-\n#### UK's top crime agency hamstrung by legacy IT, watchdog warns\n\nRegulator says NCA's aging tech drags down productivity, forces officers to juggle hardware and do manual workarounds", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/world-food-programme-breach-exposes-data-of-600k-vulnerable-gazan-families", "canonical_source": "https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/05/world-food-programme-breach-exposes-data-of-600k-vulnerable-gazan-families/5251605", "published_at": "2026-06-05 13:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-05 13:41:49.181644+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy", "ai-ethics", "ai-safety"], "entities": ["World Food Programme"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/world-food-programme-breach-exposes-data-of-600k-vulnerable-gazan-families", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/world-food-programme-breach-exposes-data-of-600k-vulnerable-gazan-families.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/world-food-programme-breach-exposes-data-of-600k-vulnerable-gazan-families.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/world-food-programme-breach-exposes-data-of-600k-vulnerable-gazan-families.jsonld"}}