Security News > 2020 > June > ‘BlueLeaks’ exposes sensitive files from hundreds of police departments
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.
On Friday, DDoSecrets said on Twitter that the BlueLeaks archive indexes "Ten years of data from over 200 police departments, fusion centers and other law enforcement training and support resources", including "Police and FBI reports, bulletins, guides and more."
The collective said that the source of the data was Anonymous: the label that some hacktivists have used when taking actions against targets such as the hospitals involved in the Justina Pelletier case, revenge-porn site publisher Hunter Moore, and, more recently, attacks on the Atlanta and Minneapolis police departments following police killings of Black men.
Information security reporter Brian Krebs says that he got his hands on an internal analysis dated 20 June, from the National Fusion Center Association, that confirmed the validity of the BlueLeaks data.
The NFCA alert said that some of the files also contain highly sensitive information, including "ACH routing numbers, international bank account numbers, and other financial data, as well as personally identifiable information and images of suspects listed in Requests for Information and other law enforcement and government agency reports."