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'BlueLeaks' Exposes Files from Hundreds of Police Departments
Hundreds of thousands of potentially sensitive files from police departments across the United States were leaked online last week. The collection, dubbed "BlueLeaks" and made searchable online, stems from a security breach at a Texas web design and hosting company that maintains a number of state law enforcement data-sharing portals.
The collection — nearly 270 gigabytes in total — is the latest release from Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets), an alternative to Wikileaks that publishes caches of previously secret data.
In a post on Twitter, DDoSecrets said the BlueLeaks archive indexes "ten years of data from over 200 police departments, fusion centers and other law enforcement training and support resources," and that "among the hundreds of thousands of documents are police and FBI reports, bulletins, guides and more."
Fusion centers are state-owned and operated entities that gather and disseminate law enforcement and public safety information between state, local, tribal and territorial, federal and private sector partners.
BlueLeaks from Distributed Denial of Secrets. [Dataset link has been nonresponsive since this story was submitted.]
Also at Vice, Forbes, ZDNet, and SecurityWeek.
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 23 2020, @12:29AM (15 children)
When are these great "leakers" going to reveal the mafia connections to our politicians?
I remember when Anonymous threatened to reveal some cartel docs, and they chickened out. Fuck them! What bullshit!
(Score: 4, Insightful) by takyon on Tuesday June 23 2020, @12:41AM (6 children)
That's a large data dump. Give it some time. The fusion centers should have some interesting stuff since they allow ordinary cops to LARP as DHS/FBI agents.
This is low-hanging fruit that was gathered because so many agencies/centers used the same point of failure: Houston-based web development firm Netsential. Good luck finding such convenient access for the "mafia connections to our politicians".
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 23 2020, @01:27AM (3 children)
low-hanging fruit
Yes, how conveeeenient! As always, we will hear about "incompetence", never intent.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday June 23 2020, @01:33AM (2 children)
What, do you want the leaker(s) to be caught?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 23 2020, @01:44AM (1 child)
Gee, I thought the setup was pretty obvious, but okay
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday June 23 2020, @01:46AM
Nobody cares (about anything).
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 23 2020, @02:17AM
'Good luck finding such convenient access for the "mafia connections to our politicians".'
Didn't we pretty much stop drawing that line a while back?
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 23 2020, @03:08AM
The fusion centers should have some interesting stuff since they allow single mothers to LARP as DHS/FBI agents.
There, FTFY.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 23 2020, @01:16AM (5 children)
They did. Look at the Wikileaks dumps. The result? The messenger was vilified.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 23 2020, @01:31AM (4 children)
Oh please! Give me something I can take to the prosecutor...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 23 2020, @01:48AM (3 children)
Can't we just #metoo the guy?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 23 2020, @01:53AM (2 children)
I'm talking about their file cache. What links are there that we can we take to court and get the mob out of congress?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 23 2020, @03:09AM (1 child)
It would be a shame if anybody found out that you beat your wife. A lot of people disapprove of violence against women.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 23 2020, @04:49AM
It would be a shame if anybody found out that you beat your wife.
I can guarantee you that it would be a miracle!
But, I have been called a miracle worker, so anything is possible
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 23 2020, @03:34PM (1 child)
Mafia stuff is an anachronism, at least in the US.
Corporations are vastly more powerful now a days, hold just about the same ethical values, and they're not only legal but have the ability to ability to openly get laws passed requiring the government and police to work as their enforcers - which sure beats Bruno and Tony any day. I mean that completely seriously, million dollar fines and a decade in prison for copyright infringement? Penalties are supposed to be proportional to the offense committed. That's just clear evidence the government is little more than a proxy for corporations now a days.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 23 2020, @04:49PM
Yes, corporations are just mafias with a charter, or license to kill. They are very well organized criminals with judges and politicians in their pockets. It really is just age old high seas piracy, where before they were "hunter/gatherers". Now they have settled into modern "agriculture".