Security News > 2020 > July > Germany Seizes Server Hosting Pilfered U.S. Police Files
The data, dating back to 1996, include emails, audio and video files and police and FBI intelligence reports.
Some of the files offer insights into the police response to those protests, they said.
They said the files show "a lot of things that are entirely legal and normal and horrifying," including police surveillance and police intelligence of dubious origin.
The files do not include high-level intelligence but provide a window into the relationship between law enforcement at all levels, he said - one that he believes the FBI doesn't want the public to see lest it "Add more fuel to the protests" against police brutality and racism in policing.
Previous DDoSecrets releases include data on offshore Bahamas accounts used as tax havens, files hacked from Chilean police and data from a British provider of offshore financial services that has drawn comparisons, on a smaller scale, to the 2016 Panama Papers leak.