WHO, Wuhan lab hack reveals coronavirus ‘spliced’ with HIV to make it deadly, spread using dry ice?

Hackers have leaked sensitive data reportedly belonging to the World Health Organization, the Gates Foundation, as well as the Wuhan Institute of Virology, among other organizations, according to SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors online extremism and terrorist groups.

The digital data of World Health Organization, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the Gates Foundation and other institutes working on the novel coronavirus pandemic have been hacked, with thousands of their emails, passwords and documents getting leaked online.

According to the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors terror groups online, hackers shared around 25,000 email addresses and their passwords of the groups which are at the forefront of the war against the global pandemic.

COVID-19 spliced with HIV?

Many screenshots of the documents, emails and their passwords were posted on Twitter too. The data was leaked on Sunday and Monday.

Since the leak, several Twitter users have shared posts implying that information seized through the email addresses and passwords have “confirmed that SARS-Co-V-2 was in fact artificially spliced with HIV. . .”

This information is yet to be verified but echoes the sentiments of Luc Montagnier, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who co-discovered HIV. Montagnier recently said that he believed the coronavirus was made in a lab and contained elements of HIV, as previously  reported.

Some users tried to further the theory that COVID-19 was intentionally released by Dr Zhengli Shi, the head of the Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Hazard suits hang at the National Bio-safety Laboratory, Wuhan, the first lab on the Chinese mainland equipped for the highest level of biocontainment. Photo/Courtesy

“On the 19th of October 2019, Dr. Zhengli Shi…stopped one time, halfway through her journey, opened her suitcase, and placed a block of contaminated dry ice near an air vent at the fish market in question,” reads one of the allegedly leaked documents, as pointed out by a user.

The Maryland-based SITE said the National Institute of Health (NIH) was the biggest victim of hacking with 9,938 emails and passwords posted online. As many as 6,857 emails and passwords of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 5,120 of the World Bank and 2,732 of WHO were also leaked.

The Gates Foundation, the private philanthropic group of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, and the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan city in China from where the novel coronavirus pandemic originated, were also targeted by the hackers.

However, the SITE was unable to verify whether the email addresses and passwords were authentic. An Australian cybersecurity expert, Robert Potter, claimed that he was able to verify if the WHO email addresses and passwords were real.

Rita Katz, SITE’s Executive Director, said, “Neo-Nazis and white supremacists capitalised on the lists and published them aggressively across their venues.”

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