Distributed Denial of Secrets

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Distributed Denial of Secrets , or DDoS or DDoSecrets for short , is an activist group that publishes unpublished information, known as leaks . It is seen as an alternative to WikiLeaks .

Leaks

Bahamas tax leaks

These are confidential documents from the Bahamas business register that suggest tax optimization to fraud. Der Spiegel was a media partner for this revelation. Public persons are also affected by the leaks, for example the Vienna Ministry of Finance is examining the documents.

BlueLeaks

A data leak at a provider in Houston , Texas , which maintains several data centers for law enforcement agencies, allowed 269 gigabytes of data (internal documents, photos, videos and bank details; social security numbers, bank details and private information of individual police officers) from more than 200 US police stations 24 years and the FBI . The data shows, among other things, how closely Twitter and the Chinese video portal TikTok work together with the police: during the protests over the death of George Floyd , the companies are said to have helped the police monitor protesters and activists. The data is also said to include files more than ten years old from more than 200 police departments and law enforcement centers across the United States. 387 individual files are to document the cooperation between the US police and German authorities. DDoS is said to have received the data from hackers in the Anonymous group , which DDos made public on June 19, 2020. In addition to the “theft of the data”, the inadequate blackening of sensitive investigation files “which even endangers human life” is criticized .

The Zwickau public prosecutor , with the help of the police, seized a server in a data center in Falkenstein / Vogtl on July 3 at the request of the US Department of Justice . , which served as the main server for the public download of the BlueLeaks data. The provider informed DDoS about the seizure on July 7th. Information about the sources, informants or whistleblowers of BlueLeaks should not be endangered.

The title "BlueLeaks" alludes to the police officers' blue uniforms.

Twitter

On June 23, 2020, Twitter suspended the group's profile for violating the platform's policies.

Web links

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  1. ↑ Associations that act as intermediaries and coordination centers between state and local law enforcement and US federal agencies. They are involved in training officers and relaying federal warnings, guides, and other instructions from central government to local police departments and vice versa.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jakob Jung: BlueLeaks: One million US police files stolen. In: ZDNet. June 22, 2020, accessed June 25, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Malte Born, Rafael Buschmann, Roman Höfner, Muriel Kalisch, Sebastian Mondial, Nicola Naber, Sara Wess, Sabrina Winter, Christoph Winterbach and Michael Wulzinger: Tax havens: The secret companies of German celebrities in the Bahamas - DER SPIEGEL - Wirtschaft. In: Der Spiegel . May 20, 2020, accessed June 25, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b Hackers publish data on tax havens. In: Deutschlandfunk Nova . June 25, 2020, accessed June 25, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b c d Julia Kastein: Server confiscated in Germany: US disclosure platform speaks of censorship. In: @mediasres media magazine. Deutschlandfunk , July 15, 2020, accessed on July 15, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Expert Council for External Links: What Was Left of the Day - BlueLeaks, Boycott and Bias. In: netzpolitik.org . June 24, 2020, accessed June 25, 2020 .
  6. ↑ 'BlueLeaks' Exposes Files from Hundreds of police departments. In: Cancer on Security. June 22, 2020, accessed June 25, 2020 (American English).
  7. ↑ Markus Reuter: Police data from the USA - BlueLeaks server near Zwickau confiscated. In: netzpolitik.org. July 7, 2020, accessed July 8, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Catalin Cimpanu: German authorities seize 'BlueLeaks' server that hosted data on US cops. July 7, 2020, accessed on July 8, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Patrick Beuth, Christoph Winterbach: Zwickau Public Prosecutor ensures the servers of activists - Netzwelt. In: Der Spiegel. Retrieved July 8, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Martin Holland: Internal US police data published: Twitter blocks Leak Portal account. In: heise online . June 24, 2020, accessed June 25, 2020 .