The high-profile status given to the SDC has also drawn the ire of a number of people. Particularly some people based in China. Coming off a post published earlier today here at Mashable which mentioned Chinese authorities’ decision to block and take down numerous popular video sites, including YouTube, two reporters of The Washington Post, Ellen Nakashima and Colum Lynch, say that the FBI “has opened a preliminary investigation of a report that China-based hackers have penetrated the e-mail accounts of leaders and members of the Save Darfur Coalition.” They go on to explain that “the accounts of 10 members [of SDC] were hacked into between early February and last week.” SDC spokesman M Allyn Brooks-LaSure naturally claimed that the intruders “seemed intent on subversively monitoring, probing and disrupting coalition activities.”