The ABC aired an interview with Dutch anti-Muslim campaigner Geert Wilders earlier this month. Picture: Tony Gough Source: Herald Sun
VICTIMS have been left stunned after their personal information was leaked online following an alleged hacking attack on the ABC website.
The personal information of thousands of Australians, including email addresses, location and gender, was leaked following the hacking.
Hacker "Phr0zenMyst" announced the attack about 1am 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.
In the tweet, the hacker said the attack was retaliation for ABC "giving a platform'' to Dutch anti-Muslim campaigner Geert Wilders, who is currently on a speaking tour of Australia.
''ABC hacked for giving a platform for Geert Wilders to spread hatred #OpWilders - database leaked!'' the tweet read.
A South Australian government worker listed in the file, who did not wish to be named, was shocked her email address, age and postcode had been exposed online.
She said she couldn't remember ever signing up to an ABC website.
NSW resident Tim Gresham was horrified to learn his personal details had been exposed on the internet when contacted by News Limited this morning.
He said the information came from a questionnaire he filled out on the ABC's "Making Australia Happy'' website for its recent documentary series Making Couples Happy.
"This hacker has probably got a lot of information about me, intimate information about me, having an idea of what that website asked me in terms of my relationships and personal life,'' he said.
"They're asking a lot of people some very intimate stuff on that website, so these hackers have got some fairly intimate information on a number of people if they've managed to hack that website. This is big.''
Mr Gresham likened the data leak to a theft or assault.
"Of course I'm angry. I get angry if my house is broken into, or if a possession of mine is broken into when it's in someone else's care, and that's what this is,'' he said.
"It's theft. It annoys me because I can't stand junk mail, but I do get a lot of spam to that address and this will make it worse.''
On February 14, before his arrival in Australia, Mr Wilders was interviewed about his opposition to muslim immigrants in the Netherlands by Tony Jones on ABCs Lateline show.
The ABC has been contacted for comment.
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