The attack was discovered on Dec. 10 – the site of the Ministry of Health was replaced by an image from Lapsus$, that claimed the ministry would need to contact the hackers to restore the stolen data that the group had stolen, copied, and deleted from its networks. A translated version of the app’s website, which includes anti-septics, immunology and more. Deputy Health Minister Rodrigo Cruz confirmed that the ministry tried to restore its network, Reuters reports, and couldn’t access COVID-19 vaccine data. At the time of writing, the Ministry of Health’s website and the ConecteSUS web app remain unavailable. But the ministry tweeted Dec. 12 that the process for retracing the records of Brazilians who have vaccinated against Covid-19 has been complete with no losses of information,” and said that “all data was successfully retrieved.” That hasn’t yet shared details about how the data has been recovered. The Ministry of Health says “in a followup tweet, the department is working hard to get ready a new program for registering and issuing vaccination certificates as quickly as possible.” If only they were unable to access this information, Brazil put down a policy that would have required unvaccinated travelers to be tested for COVID-19 and quarantined for five days after entering the country. That policy was supposed to take effect on Dec. 11; it’s been delayed until Dec. 18.
