Sydney, Feb 27 (ANI): The personal details of thousands of Australians have been leaked after a hacking attack on public broadcaster ABC.
Hacker 'Phr0zenMyst' said the attack was retaliation for the ABC "giving a platform" to Dutch anti-Muslim campaigner Geert Wilders, who is on a speaking tour of Australia.
The hacker group announced the attack on Twitter, posting a link to several data files they claimed were taken from the abc.net.au database.
The files contain the personal email addresses, locations and genders of thousands of registered users of ABC websites, including encrypted versions of their login passwords, the Australian reports.
ABC corporate affairs director Michael Millett said the hacking had originated from "an overseas location".
The ABC would contact audience members who had been directly affected, she added.
On February 14, before his arrival in Australia, Wilders was interviewed about his opposition to Muslim immigrants in the Netherlands by Tony Jones on the ABC's Lateline show. (ANI)
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