Article WH5W Paris climate summit: hackers leak login details of more than 1,000 officials

Paris climate summit: hackers leak login details of more than 1,000 officials

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Francis Churchill
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Private data including emails, usernames and phone numbers of 1,415 delegates posted online by Anonymous in protest against arrests of activists

Hackers have leaked the private login details of nearly 1,415 officials at the UN climate talks in Paris in an apparent act of protest against arrests of activists in the city.

Anonymous, the hacktivist movement, hacked the website of the summit organisers, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and posted names, phone numbers, usernames, email addresses, and secret questions and answers onto an anonymous publishing site.

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