Hackers have compromised a database containing the email addresses of people who had registered on a website in order to campaign for opposition figure Alexey Navalny’s release from prison. It is now readily available online.
Keeping their identities anonymous, the hackers have sent emails to Navalny’s supporters, threatening to use their email addresses to gather extra information, before eventually selling the database to advertising companies. The leaked file contains 529,570 different addresses, although many of them have not been verified.
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