Hackers have targeted Germany's far-right with a Wikileaks-style website.
The launch of nazi-leaks.net follows the beginning of Operation Blitzkrieg, a promotion against neo-nazi and other far-right sites attributed to Anonymous.
The site includes a list of people the hacker organisation alleges are donors to the National Democratic Party (NPD).
The NPD are reported to be deliberation authorised action against the site.
Anonymous is a loose-knit getting of hackers most appropriate well known for attacks launched in 2010 against companies such as Mastercard, Visa and Paypal in reply to their withdrawal of services from Wikileaks.
A matter purporting to be from Anonymous voiced the launch of Operation Blitzkrieg.
"We hereby call to you to pick out sites where the nazis gather... gather the information and prepare attacks," it said.
The nazi-leaks.net data, the flawlessness of that has not so far been verified, moreover enclosed a few NPD emails, patron lists from far-right stores, together with meeting information from a weekly paper.
Some of the information had already been published online, German media reports suggest.
The trickle has been criticised by a few entangled in fighting the far-right, citing privacy concerns.
Simone Rafael from the anti-Nazi web forum netz-gegen-nazis.de told the BBC: "The goal is a great one but we regard this is the incorrect way to act.
"Putting the addresses and names of people onto the internet is the incorrect way to do this.
"This is a lot of data, but there are already a few names where it's coherent the people are not worried extremists."
Some people identified in the information had merely been contacted by worried publications looking interviews, she added.
After the headlines broke, nazi-leaks.net became inaccessible, presumably since the high volume of traffic it was experiencing.
However, the information has been mirrored on other websites, inclusive the Anonops communications blog.
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