The Ministry of Health confirmed that an accredited external operator improperly altered user data in the ConnectSUS registry. The app is used as a vaccination passport across the country.
According to the ministry, the operator has no link with the folder. “The modification was not made by a ministry server, but by an accredited operator, which already had its access to the system blocked”, he informs.
Today, Brazil has 45 thousand accredited operators. According to the ministry, they are people who have direct access to the system to include and modify information that appears in the ConnectSUS application.
On social networks, scientific researcher Átila Iamarino denounced the alteration in the register itself. “I found out that my data on Conecta SUS was also hacked. They changed my name, my mother’s name and my nationality on the vaccination certificate, in an official document…”, wrote the biologist.
The registration of Felipe Castanhari, director and presenter of Canal Nostalgia, was also targeted by the operator.
Questioned, the folder did not inform the operator’s identity or the city where he works. Still without data on who was the victim, the ministry guides those who were harmed to seek the ombudsman by phone 136. “The ministry reinforces that it is working to restore records and block operators responsible for undue changes”, says Marcelo Queiroga’s portfolio.
Reference: CNN Brasil
