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Norway's aid agency Norad says grants portal attackers may have taken all user details
Attackers used 27 compromised user accounts to access the Norad Grants Portal, also used by Norway's foreign ministry. Names and email addresses of all 20,614 registered users may be exposed and three foreign organisations' applications were stolen; Norad shut the portal and reported it to police and regulators.
- Organisation
- Norad
- Disclosed
- 5 November 2026
- Affected
- 20,614
- Data
- Names, email addresses, grant applications and supporting documents
- Attacker
- Unknown
- Severity
- major
- Region
- Global
- Source
- Help Net Security ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “Norway's aid agency Norad says grants portal attackers may have taken all user details”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 5 Nov 2026. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2026-11-05-norad-breach/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: Help Net Security, https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/11/05/norad-grants-portal-breach/.
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