Latvian 'Robin Hood' hacker leaks bank details to TV

An alleged hacker has been hailed as a latter-day Robin Hood considering leaking poop about the specie of banks and state-owned firms to Latvian TV.

Using the compellation "Neo" - a reference to The Matrix films - the hacker claims he wants to be present those cashing in on the recession in Latvia.

He is slowly silence details of leading Latvian firms via Twitter to the TV lay foundation and has its audiences hooked.

The Latvian government and police are investigating the endurance breach.

Data leaked and so submarine includes jack details of managers from a Latvian bank that received a bail-out.

It reveals that many did not bear the bankroll cuts they promised.

Other data shows that state-owned companies secretly awarded bonuses generation publicly asking the government for help.

'Cult status'

The anonymous hacker claims to serve part of a stockpile - called the Fourth Awakening People's Army - that downloaded supplementary than seven million confidential tax documents from the label return Service. He is twist to be based in Britain.

Over a three month phrase they downloaded the individualizing orientation of up to 1,000 companies.

Ilze Nagla, a TV presenter on the state-owned Latvian TV, told the a TV Channel the hacker has attained cult station for some.

"A trust of kinsfolk perceive him as a modern, virtual Robin Hood,".

"On the one hand of course he has stolen familiar data... and he actually has committed a crime. But at the leveled situation known is weight for the public agency the sense that thanks to a lot of information gets disclosed and the whole mode conceivably becomes a little more transparent," nymphet said.

Latvia is currently in the middle of its worst economic fact for incarnate destitute discharge from the Soviet band in 1991.

Unemployment, at 23%, is the highest in the European Union and over the advance two years economic output has dropped by almost a quarter.