In an exciting twist for anyone who thought journalists only dealt with boring things like facts and deadlines, a new hack-for-hire campaign is spicing up their lives with a generous sprinkle of cyber espionage. Who needs privacy when you can have the thrill of realizing a shadowy cyber group has been reading your emails all along? It’s like a surprise birthday party, except with malware.

This highly professional endeavor—because who wouldn’t call a band of manipulative digital mercenaries professional?—is suspected to be linked to the Indian government. Meanwhile, the journalists targeted are simply overjoyed by their newfound fame. After all, nothing says you’ve made it like being on a nefarious organization’s hitlist alongside activists and government officials. Now your emails, too, can travel the world without a passport.

The targets, including esteemed Egyptian journalists and government critics, can at least take solace in the fact that they are in good company. After all, a little hacking scandal here and there only adds to their journalistic street cred. Perhaps one day, these journalistic sleuths will pen down thrilling exposés on the lifestyles of the spycraft elite, assuming they can stop changing their passwords every 15 minutes.