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It published personal details and photographs of named individuals online, doxxing them and exposing them to harassment. The account had almost 50,000 followers and had become increasingly prominent as RNLI staff were harassed and attacked online by far-right activists. 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No bounds are given because no dated timeline items bound a duration, time to contain, or date detected. event.trigger: unknown was classified, not stated; a trigger is never inferred, so it is unknown. system.tier: not set; no operator named and deployment_context is not a lab's. [aggregated by deepseek-chat, aggregate-2026-09-27.1, 2026-10-10] system.deployment_context: no source states where it ran. system.developer: no source names the developer. system.autonomy_level: no source states the arrangement. event.detection_method: no source says who first noticed. event.incident_class: a source states personal or confidential data reached a party not entitled to it, with no attacker driving it. event.summary: classified from described behaviour. event.trigger: no source states a cause. context.denominator_available: no denominator is available for this incident. 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