A group of hackers stole archive containing personal photographs, copies of passports, accreditation and other documents, as well as the email addresses and the content of personal correspondence between journalists covering the war in the Russia supported part of Eastern Ukraine.

The hackers named the archive "Dump" (Data full copy - Ed.). It includes the personal information of journalists from more than 30 international media, including CNN, BBC, Associated Press, Al-Jazeera, Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and the Daily Beast.

Ukrainian nationalists and officials supporting the leak, claim that it is the data of journalists ‘cooperating with terrorists’.

The hacked e-mailbox is owned by Tatyana Yegorova, the administrator of the security service of the Donetsk Republic. Most of the letters contained requests to provide an accreditation. Without such documents, the reporter can not pass through the checkpoints.

Earlier in May, the site «Mirotvorets» («Peacemaker»), associated with the security forces of Ukrainian Nationalists, already drew up black lists of reporters, but under the pressure of public opinion Poroshenko was forced to publicly condemn this activity.

The Associated Press says that the culprits of the fresh leak were the same group of "Mirotvorets", and this week, journalists have received numerous threats.

‘This attack on the media is very dangerous for local journalists, because after each publication we can see a wave of hatred and threatening messages. I've already heard questions about the presence of my name in those lists from Ukrainian soldiers,’ said Polish journalist Pavel Penyazhek to the Daily Beast.

One of the intimidated journalists, Peter Andrusechko from the Polish Gazeta Wyborcza, said that the leak was part of a larger campaign by the police and nationalists in Ukraine, who do not like that journalists from all over the world cover events on both sides of the conflict.

Earlier this month, another journalist pf the Ukrainian Pravda, Catherine Sergachkova, received threats from Dmitry Korchinskiy after she had published an interview about tortures in the SBU. The journalist came to live in Ukraine from Crimea in 2014; she gave up the Russian citizenship.

‘We constantly receive threats and insults from officials,’ says Natalia Gumenyuk, the editor-in-chief of the Gromadske TV.

On Friday, the Euromaidanpress reposted a link to the entire archive on its website.

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