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AnonAustria publishes personal data of Austrian Police

AnonAustria publishes personal data of Austrian Police Created by MG1 on Sep 28, 2011

The Austrian branch of the Anonymous hacking group, AnonAustria, has published the personal information including addresses and dates of birth of nearly 25,000 police officials, ranging from low rank beat officers to senior commanders in the police force.
AnonAustria posted the private information as a searchable database on its Twitter account yesterday, justifying their actions in protest of a proposed change to the law that would see telecommunications companies forced to save details of all telephone and internet traffic for a minimum of 6 months, and provide them to police when requested.
Police union official Walter Scharinger expressed concern yesterday regarding the news, fearing rev... »read more

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