The Sunday Times and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism have access to the gang’s database, which reveals the extraordinary scale of the attacks. It shows criminals targeted the private email accounts of more than 100 victims on behalf of investigators working for authoritarian states, British lawyers and their wealthy clients. Critics of Qatar who threatened to expose wrongdoing by the Gulf state ahead of this month’s World Cup were among those hacked. It is the first time that the inner workings of a major hack-for-hire gang have been leaked to the media and reveal multiple criminal conspiracies.
