Chinese police and officials were targeted in the hack which produced numerous files detailing the untold horrors inflicted by Xi Jinping's state on the Uighur Muslims of Xinjiang. Victims of Communism Senior Fellow Dr Adrian Zenz has set out some of the most heartwrenching cases from the newly discovered list of previously faceless and nameless detainees.
He said the actions of China in Xinjiang bore all the "telltale signs of a mass atrocity."
Asked if the evidence of mass incarceration of Uighurs amounted to cultural genocide, Dr Zenz told Sky News Australia: "That is absolutely true. The evidence conclusively shows that we can even see it.
"On some of the lists, it gives like an official prison sentence somebody sentenced to many years in prison and the official charges, is like disturbing the social order or like endangering national security and what they actually did...some other spreadsheets record what they are actually accused of....