Hacker Leaks Personal Data of Spanish Politicians

Spanish police are investigating a hacker leaking the personal data of government officials and politicians, including the apparent national ID number and personal email of President Pedro Sánchez.

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Info dumps on wedoxyou.ru of personal details pertain to dozens of current and former politicians including members of the governing social democratic Spanish Socialist Worker’s Party, opposition conservative Popular Party and the left-wing Podemos party, whose name means “We Can” and which is in a coalition government with the Socialist Worker’s Party. Data includes mobile numbers, ID numbers, email and physical addresses.

One massive document lists hundreds of passwords and some emails of individuals who registered with Podemos. Also are affected are reporters and commentators characterized as left-wing.

A hacker with the handle “@akkaspace” took responsibility for the info dumps while calling for the resignation of Sánchez. The hacker’s handle on social media network X handles reads, “Yes, ultra-right wing cyber delinquency, very very bad.”

A 500 page dump published Friday is the third data leak since June 19. A first leak appeared on a Telegram channel “Alvise Pérez Chat,” named after Luis “Alvise” Pérez Fernández, founder of far-right political party Se Acabó La Fiesta, which translates to “The Party Is Over.”

The Spanish National Police is investigating and judicial authority the National Court already opened an investigation the day after the first leak, reported Radiotelevisión Española.

Akkaspace disclosed in a Twitch chat that he leaked the information to expose corruption within the Spanish government, local news outlet Publico reported Sunday.

“There are only two options, that they catch me or don’t catch me. I’m going to keep doing it until they get me or they don’t get me. The people will defend me,” he said, in Spanish.

The hacker claimed to be a member of an “internet terrorist” group called “etarras,” although he added that he was operating “on his own.”

Following the initial leaks, Spanish authorities has blocked the initial Telegram page set up by Akkaspace, but the hacker later set up a different channel. El Mundo reported Friday that police had already been watching the hacker before the leaks began on June 19.

Sánchez has already had a difficult month due to accusations that a high-ranking Spanish Worker’s Party official directed government contracts to favored firms in exchange for kickbacks, with the money laundered through front companies. The president in a June 12 speech expressed “enormous indignation and deep sadness” and an independent audit of his party’s bank accounts, reproted El País.

With reporting from Information Security Media Group’s David Perera in Northern Virginia.