More than 21,000 people have had their personal information leaked on the dark web by cyber criminals who hacked in to the PN's computer system. Files including names, addresses, ID cards and, in some cases, phone numbers were published on a hackers’ forum in recent days after a ransomware attack last month. The file was labelled in such a way to suggest the people whose data was leaked are either current or former tesserati (paid-up members). Last month, hackers had threatened to leak “valuable” Nationalist Party documents unless the party agreed to “communicate and cooperate” with them. Leader Bernard Grech had said in an interview that the party would not negotiate with cyber criminals. In the last few days, hackers uploaded three files, claiming to have dumped 1.3 GiB (gibibytes) of information but not all of it appears to be accessible. The PN told Times of Malta yesterday it believes hackers were only able to access data relating to 2014 or earlier, adding it was doing “its utmost to minimise the impact” of the attack. The data includes eight files full of excel sheets, including personal records of 21,049 party paid members and also past and present employees of the...