'BlueLeaks': Group Releases 270GB of Sensitive Police Documents
Hundreds of thousands of files from dozens of law enforcement agencies in the United States have been dumped online, totalling a collection of nearly 270 gigabytes.
Distributed Denial Of Secrets, a collective of journalists, activists and technologists that provide a platform to leak sensitive data in service of the public interest, posted the collection on Friday, Juneteenth. The collective described the collection—codenamed BlueLeaks—as “ten years of data from over 200 police departments, fusion centers and other law enforcement training and support resources. Among the hundreds of thousands of documents are police and FBI reports, bulletins, guides and more.”
Security journalist Brian Krebs reported that a document he obtained from the National Fusion Center Association (NFCA) confirms the validity of the leaked data, and notes it contains highly sensitive information. The NFCA is an organization that represents the country’s fusion centers, controversial government organizations that collect and share data between police departments and other law enforcement agencies in the country including the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security.
“Additionally, the data dump contains emails and associated attachments,” the NFCA alert reads, according to KrebsOnSecurity. “Our initial analysis revealed that some of these files contain highly sensitive information such as ACH routing numbers, international bank account numbers (IBANs), and other financial data as well as personally identifiable information (PII) and images of suspects listed in Requests for Information (RFIs) and other law enforcement and government agency reports.”
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