Tag: Blue Leaks

Twitter Blocks Users From Sharing Links to ‘BlueLeaks’ Data Dump

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Twitter Blocks Users From Sharing Links to ‘BlueLeaks’ Data Dump

Twitter will crack down on tweets that link to a 269GB leak of police files

The social media site this week permanently suspended the Twitter account of Distributed Denial of Secrets, a group of journalists and activists that obtained the 269GB trove of files and published it under the name “BlueLeaks.” 

According to a Twitter spokesperson, the company decided to take action because Distributed Denial of Secrets has admitted the 269GB of information came from the hacktivist group Anonymous. Last year, Twitter introduced a rule that banned users from sharing hacked materials on the social media service. “You can discuss a hack that has taken place,” the policy says. But posting the hacked content in an image, text, or via a link is a violation. 

Hack Brief: Anonymous Stole and Leaked a Megatrove of Police Documents

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Hack Brief: Anonymous Stole and Leaked a Megatrove of Police Documents

On Friday of last week, the Juneteenth holiday, a leak-focused activist group known as Distributed Denial of Secrets published a 269-gigabyte collection of police data that includes emails, audio, video, and intelligence documents, with more than a million files in total. DDOSecrets founder Emma Best tells WIRED that the hacked files came from Anonymous—or at least a source self-representing as part of that group, given that under Anonymous’ loose, leaderless structure anyone can declare themselves a member. Over the weekend, supporters of DDOSecrets, Anonymous, and protesters worldwide began digging through the files to pull out frank internal memos about police efforts to track the activities of protesters. The documents also reveal how law enforcement has described groups like the antifascist movement Antifa.