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The 2015 Hacking Team leak refers to the disclosure of e-mails and internal documents of July 5, 2015 that links different governments around the world to the Italian Hacking Team espionage software company. The leak showed that the company was selling surveillance software to repressive governments such as Barein, Uzbekistan, Ethiopia or Sudan, although the latter has an embargo on the acquisition of weapons by the United Nations for its persecution of activists, journalists and political opponents. Similar restrictions exist for other countries as well.

The internal document leak also showed that 35 nations had acquired surveillance software, which triggered a global discussion on the legal use of these tools. The countries listed as buyers were Egypt, Ethiopia, Morocco, Nigeria, Sudan, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, the Czech Republic, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Australia, Cyprus, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Italy, Luxembourg, Spain, Russia, Switzerland, Baréin, Oman, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The e-mails also linked the governments of Argentina, Peru, Paraguay and Uruguay as potential buyers.

The leak was executed by a hacker who uses the pseudonyms of "Phineas Fisher" and "Hack Back."

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