OHeraldo strikes back

IN Media Watch Briefs | 22/07/2016

Following the making public of an extortion sting which exposed the O Heraldo newspqper in Goa, the paper has now filed a complaint with the Goa Police Crime Branch Cyber Cell, in which they have tried to implicate the journalist who exposed the sting, in a data theft and hacking case. In a news story published in the paper it reports that this was done after stolen emails were posted on social media.

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