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https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/06/23/blueleaks-exposes-sensitive-files-from-hundreds-of-police-departments/

'BlueLeaks' exposes sensitive files from hundreds of police departments

2020-06-23 00:00:00, by
Lisa Vaas, Naked Security

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/Law & Government/Public Safety/Law Enforcement

Word Count:
712

Words/Sentence:
45

Reading Time:
7.12 min

Reading Quality:
Advanced

Readability:
16th or higher

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DDoSecret – a journalist collective known as a more transparent alternative to Wikileaks – published hundreds of thousands of potentially sensitive files from law enforcement, totaling nearly 270 gigabytes, on Juneteenth.

That date – 19 June – is a holiday that celebrates the emancipation of those who were enslaved in the US.

DDoSecrets often passes the data it receives on to journalists or "other figures best positioned to interrogate it."

A quick look at Twitter posts shows that since Friday, figures have most certainly been interrogating the BlueLeaks data:

A tweet from those poring over the BlueLeaks files.

Krebs talked to Stewart Baker, an attorney and former assistant secretary of policy at the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), who said that the BlueLeaks data isn't likely to give anybody much insight into police misconduct.

Netsential provides web hosting for many US law enforcement agencies and fusion centers.

According to the alert, the dates on the files actually go back further than 10 years.

As a collective, we do not support any cause, idea or message beyond ensuring that information is available to those who need it most – the people.

The collective has two criteria for publishing data: The data has to be of public interest, and it's got to be capable of being verified.

Keywords
netsential, juneteenth, data loss, hacktivism, blm, security threats, anonymous, law & order, ddosecrets, blueleaks, transparency collective

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