14 DAY TRIAL // A group of hacktivists known as the Peoples Liberation Front (PLF) have launched HackerLeaks, a website where hackers can submit the information they steal and want to make public.
The recently disbanded LulzSec hacker group has proven that hackers are able to easily break into websites and computer systems belonging to governments and companies.
Many of them do this silently, while others like to brag about it publicly. Some prefer to keep the information they obtain to themselves while others choose to leak it on the Internet.
But regardless of how they choose to act, all hackers most likely stumble over data that might have a political valuable or otherwise be important for the general public.
However, because they don't have time to go through it, it either gets discarded or dumped online in a form that is makes it very hard for it to get attention.
Peoples Liberation Front, a group that claims to have its roots in the '80s phreaking scene, has set up a website called HackerLeaks and offers to receive, analyze, organize and disseminate the stolen information to the media in WikiLeaks style.
"Our team of analysts first carefully screens each submission for any possible trace of the senders identity. Our second commitment is to ensure that each and every leak receives the maximum exposure possible in order to achieve the most profound political impact for the risks taken by those submitting material. To that end, we work with media outlets all over the world," the group claims.
PLF has joined forces with Anonymous Operations and is now an arm of the Anonymous hacktivist collective, an organization that has generated many news headlines in recent months and clearly has the media's attention.
HackerLeaks has already received its first submission in the form of data stolen as part of Anonymous' Operation Orlando. The information includes names, addresses, incomes, estimated home values and other details about Orlando City officials.