Thread: The raid tonight on @hkporihkpop could be part of an elaborate plot. 7 days ago a user named "Tony Mike" claimed in an unrelated @telegram group that he easily hacked the system of PORI and stole a bunch of #HKPolice officer data collected for a survey back in 2013.

The "hacker" released an excel file that contains some police data, but most entries were empty except for a surname. Pro-Beijing media Bastille Post quickly picked up the post and wrote a story on how PORI allegedly "leaked" police data.

PORI checked with their IT and found those "stolen" data wasn't even in their system to begin with. Any data with person identifiers were destroyed within 6 months after the survey was concluded, and the system had no trace of being hacked.

Yesterday Tony Mike claimed he hacked PORI's system again and took more data, incl. emails of PORI staff and files with personal data of participants of other surveys; this time a more complete dataset with names and phone no.s.

1 of the emails shows #HKPolice asked PORI for raw data of the 2013 survey in 2015. The hacker thought this "proves" PORI didn't destroy data within 6 months, but in fact he mixed up personal data with survey data. Personal data were destroyed and survey data kept for analysis.

PORI said ytd there were attempts to hack its system in the past few days but none was successful. Once again those "stolen" data don't exist in their system, and they suspect it is possible that devices of staff, ex-staff or collaboration partners were hacked.

Police today claims they received complaint of data leaks, police officer data no less, and on such ground obtained a court warrant to raid and take all computers at the PORI office.

Right on the eve of the pan-dem primaries.