James Raj Arokiasamy, who is allegedly the hacker calling himself “Messiah”, as well as Melvin Teo and Delson Moo, who were accused of executing cross-site scripting exploits against government websites, were recently arrested by the police.

Anonymous has called these police actions “heavy-handed” and “nonsensical”, and the latest threat to disclose the private information of government staffers is to draw attention and question the grounds for the arrests.

According to ZDNet, hacktivist collective Anonymous is planning to leak the personal information of government employees today, as a way to protest against the recent arrests of alleged Anonymous operatives in Singapore.

The private data of ten individuals were sent to ZDNet as part of a press statement announcing the group's intentions with a threat to disclose information on more individuals to the public.

However, ZDNet has cast doubt on the accuracy of the data, which included the names, government e-mail addresses, birth dates, passport numbers, mobile phone numbers, and nationalities.

It found that the list contained discontinued phone numbers and email addresses, as well as mismatched passport numbers after conducting checks.

The government executives in the list come from a variety of agencies, such as the Singapore Prison Service, Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA), the Public Utilities Board (PUB), and more.