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Hackers Protest Against Arrest of TPB Co-Founder, 5,000 Documents Leaked

The data was stolen from Cambodia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Sep 11, 2012 13:25 GMT  ·  By
Document leaked from the Cambodian government
   Document leaked from the Cambodian government

Anonymous hackers are protesting against the arrest of The Pirate Bay (TPB) co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm. To show they’re serious, they have hacked into the systems of Cambodia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (mfaic.gov.kh), leaking over 5,000 documents.

“In retaliation for extradition by Cambodian gov of our fella brother Gottfrid, we present this release of dozen government agencies and offices in Cambodia doxxed like hell,” they wrote next to the data leak.

“You will find there lotsa stuff including Combodian and Nepal drug trafficking authorities, army, consulates Kyrghyztan and Ukraine classified documents, Belarus, India etc etc all related to Cambodian authorities and business. Also included internet banking certificate depos and clients which belong to the mentioned authorities (sic),” they added.

One of the teaser screenshots they have published represents an intelligence analysis report made by the Ministry of Defence of Nepal. The 391 megabytes that the hacktivists have leaked mount up to a total of 5,234 documents.

In the meantime, the case of Svartholm becomes more controversial by the day. First, Sweden promised to help Cambodia with $60 million dollars. Sure, aiding poor countries is certainly a good thing, but the fact that the reward was announced just days after the arrest of Svartholm seems to be more than just a coincidence.

Furthermore, according to former Pirate Bay spokesperson Peter Sunde, the arrest might have nothing to do with The Pirate Bay or piracy. Instead, it may have something to do with WikiLeaks, since, apparently, Svartholm’s company used to host the whistleblower website.

Finally, yesterday, rumors started circulating that the arrest might be connected to a hack that affected a Swedish tax office called Logica.

Now that they’ve dealt with the Cambodian government, hacktivists might turn their attention to Sweden, so no one should be surprised if in the upcoming days we’ll report data leaks or distributed denial-of-service attacks on Swedish websites.