Hackers transferred the data of 1,003 Belarusian police officers to the opposition Telegram channel Nexta Live. Channel authors
Nexta Live itself stated that it had received the data"thanks to cyber guerrillas." The information was sorted in a Google spreadsheet. The names of the Ministry of Internal Affairs employees, their birthdays, places of service and ranks were indicated there. Moreover, most of the data related to high-ranking officers, ZDNet clarifies.
The authors of Nexta Live asked subscribers to report "facts about the crimes of specific people from the list, as well as their personal information."
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus has already stated that they havetechnologies to identify and prosecute those responsible for leaking personal data from law enforcement agencies. Interior Ministry officials said that the data of about 300 police officers got on the Internet after the presidential elections.