For the past year and a half, a rather small group of activists known as Distributed Denial of Secrets, or DDoSecrets, has discreetly yet consistently released a flood of hacked and leaked documents, from Russian oligarchs' emails to the stolen communications of Chilean military leaders to shell company databases.
A few weeks ago, the group released its most prominent break yet: BlueLeaks, a 269-gigabyte collection of approximately a million police files provided to DDoSecrets by a source lined up with the hacktivist group Anonymous, spanning emails, audio files, and interagency updates pulled from law enforcement "fusion centers," which fill in as intelligence sharing hubs.
As indicated by DDoSecrets, it speaks to the biggest ever release of hacked US police data. It might make DDoSecrets famous as the beneficiary to WikiLeaks' mission—or at least the one it clung to in its previously more optimistic years—and the inheritor of its ceaseless battles against critics and censors. "Our role is to archive and publish leaked and hacked data of potential public interest," writes the group's co-founder, Emma Best, a longtime transparency activist, in a text message interview. "We want to inspire people to come forward, and release accurate information regardless of its source."
As the media's focus developed around the BlueLeaks release, Twitter proceeded to ban the group's account, referring to a policy that it doesn't permit the distribution of hacked data.
The company caught up with a significantly progressively step, eliminating tweets that link to the DDoSecrets website, which keeps up an accessible database of the entirety of its leaks, and suspending a few accounts retroactively for linking to the ..
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