At the start of this month, news broke that The Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm had been arrested in Cambodia, quickly followed by speculation that millions of dollars were exchanged for his capture. Svartholm was deported to Sweden today, and rather coincidentally, the Anonymous hacker collective announced that it had hacked Cambodia’s government sites and leaked over 5,000 documents, The next web reported.
More specifically, the hackers attacked the Kingdom of Cambodia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation website, mfaic.gov.kh. Nevetheless, this leak isn’t just limited to Cambodia; other countries are affected as well. For example, high ranking officials of the Nepalese Army have been doxed (PDF).
Here is what the hackers had to say for themselves, in the post titled “Free Gottfrid #OPTPB Massive Cambodian gov dox leak!”: