National coordinator, Verushka Memdutt says that the organisation has received emails from two separate sources informing them that their website has been hacked. 

“The Right to Know Campaign received notice that we have become the target of an illicit action that could likely impact negatively on our organisation. These reports were received together with threats of extracting information and inflicting reputational damage against our organisation.

“As per the blackmailers, emails have been accessed and threats to leak information and destroy the organisation have been made,” she says. 

Although Memdutt could not divulge the contents of the emails nor the money demanded, she says that the organisation will not give in to the demands. 

“There was a demand for a sum of money and of which we are not going to be paying anyone. We will not satisfy any sort of financial gain and there is no one who would hold us to ransom.” 

The organisation has reached out to the police for assistance.