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Amid clashes between concerned US citizens and the police, a group of activists published 296 GB of data on the Web, allegedly stolen from information processing centers owned by local law enforcement officers.
The set of files was named BlueLeaks (literally - "blue leak", the color blue is commonly associated in the West with the police). A group calling itself Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets) is behind the publication of sensitive information. All the collected data activists posted on their resource.
According to published information, BlueLeaks contains over a million files, including scanned documents, videos, emails, audio files and more.
According to DDoSecrets representatives, the database contains an impressive set of files, the oldest of which are already 10 years old. More than 200 police stations and information processing centers own sensitive data.
Most of the compromised files are police and FBI reports, instructions, and various security guides. Personal data are stored in separate files: names, bank account numbers and phone numbers.
The DDoSecrets team stated that it received all the leaked files from the well-known group Anonymous, which, by the way, has long been threatening to publish important data of American police officers.
The leak was confirmed by a number of experts, including Brian Krebs.
