An activist hacking group has claimed to have stolen and leaked 285,000 emails belonging to the Nauru Police Force as part of a protest of Australia’s offshore detention policy.
Late on Monday night, Enlace Hacktivista, a hacking website, published 82 gigabytes of data, claiming to be 285,635 emails from the Nauru Police Force. The emails document “conditions of the island and abuses endured by asylum-seekers and refugees”, according to a tweet from Anonymous, an international collective of hacktivists.
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