Since the unjust killing of George Floyd, law enforcement agencies across the U.S have been under fire for their brutal practices. This has often been in the form of physical live protests but on the other hand, we have also found instances of cyber-activists and hackers playing their part.
A recent case of the latter has been found once again when the data of 200 police departments and fusion centers worth about 296 GB has been stolen and published online by hackers from a group named “Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets)” – totally not ironic at all.
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The data termed as Blueleaks belongs to over 254 countries and contains more than a million files divided into 13 categories including but not limited to images, documents, webpages, videos, phone numbers, emails, financial information, and audio files.
What’s even more interesting is that it encompasses a period of approximately 24 years starting from August 1996 to the 19th of June, 2020.
The group behind the leak though has said that it received the data from the hacktivist organization Anonymous which means that it was not responsible for the hack itself. Furthermore, it also includes the FBI as one of the agencies to whom the data belongs.
