HK LEAKS DOXES ACTIVISTS’ DATA
HONG KONG (AFP) — A dubious website called HK Leaks has so far posted the personal details of more than 2,000 people it deems guilty of various “misdeeds” in Hong Kong.
Hiding behind a Russian server with the intent to evade outing its operators’ identities, HK Leaks uses a “bulletproof” anonymous hosting also favored by white supremacist-linked sites such as 8kun.
In an update since last year, the site now features a pop-up window saying “rioters have ruined the rule of law and order of society in Hong Kong”, and claims more than 2,000 police and pro-China individuals have themselves been doxed by activists.
How’s that for tit for tat.
Prominent pro-democracy leaders Joshua Wong and Agnes Chow, co-founders of the disbanded Demosisto party, are on the site under a subsection named “Hong Kong independence rioter,” while media mogul Jimmy Lai is also listed.
Constantly shifting domain, HK Leaks’ online traffic has increased to about 230,000 annual unique page views, according to SiteWorthTraffic.
Among the 14 alleged national security law offenders to have been doxed are well-known activists Tony Chung, Nathan Law and Ray Wong.
Chung in July became the first political figure to be arrested under the law over allegations he had promoted Hong Kong independence through Student-localism, a group he co-founded in 2016.
Law, former chairman of Demosisto, fled to Britain after the national security law was passed.
Ray Wong, who was granted political refugee status in Germany in May 2018, told AFP he suspects he has been targeted as part of a harassment campaign by Hong Kong authorities.
“I am not surprised at all,” he said. “The Hong Kong government said they would try to arrest me by any means.”
Online archives suggest HK Leaks migrated to its latest Pakistani domain address in November 2019.
The site moved its domain multiple times last year, apparently in an attempt to avoid detection, said an analysis by