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takyon [soylentnews.org] writes:

German authorities seized the servers that hosted BlueLeaks police files at the request of the US government [businessinsider.com]

The site that hosted hundreds of thousands of leaked police files — dubbed BlueLeaks — has been taken offline after its servers were confiscated by German authorities acting at the request of the US government.

[...] It's not clear what legal grounds the US has to take the server offline. Hacking the government is a crime, but the Supreme Court has upheld [oyez.org] the right of journalists to publish leaked documents as long as they weren't involved in their theft. DDoSecrets maintains that it's a publisher without any ties to the hacker who first obtained the BlueLeaks files.

A spokesperson for the Zwickau prosecutor's office told the German outlet Zeit Online [www.zeit.de] that they were aware DDoSecrets is a journalistic project, but declined to provide any further information.

Previously: "BlueLeaks" Exposes 269 GB of Data from Hundreds of Police Departments and "Fusion Centers" [soylentnews.org]

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