Submission + - Vladdy-leaks about to go live (thedailybeast.com)
hyades1 writes: When it comes to leaking sensitive information, Wikileaks and the Kremlin have had it pretty much their own way.
Until now.
The Daily Beast is reporting that a month-old website called "Distributed Denial of Secrets", founded by Emma Best and other transparency activists, has assembled dozens of archives of hacked material from Russian politicians, journalists, bankers, nationalists, separatists, terrorists operating in Ukraine, and people associated with oligarchs. The archives are scheduled to become available on January 25.
Russia has so far been quite successful at keeping these archives, which contain hundreds of thousands of emails, Skype and Facebook messages, documents and more almost entirely off the web. Even when it's available, much of the information is almost impossible for people who don't speak Russian to track down.
It looks like that's about to end. The DDoS project compiled more than 200,000 emails into a spreadsheet for ease of searching. In all, its cache now contains 61 different leaks totaling 175 gigabytes, dwarfing, by quantity at least, Russia’s leaks against the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton campaign. The collection includes files from Alexander Budberg, a Russian columnist married to Dmitry Medvedev’s press secretary; Kirill Frolov, vice-director of the Kremlin-backed Institute for CIS Countries; and Vladislav Surkov, a top aide to Vladimir Putin who was hacked by CyberHunta in October 2016. The Surkov files contained documentary evidence of the Kremlin’s covert coordination with pro-Russia separatists within Ukraine, and though the Kremlin denounced the leak as a fake, several independent forensics examiners agreed the emails were the real deal.
Co-founder Best, who has distinguished herself by aggressively using the Freedom of Information Act to compel the US government to disgorge information, is particularly respected for her ability to compile and organize leaked data.
Until now.
The Daily Beast is reporting that a month-old website called "Distributed Denial of Secrets", founded by Emma Best and other transparency activists, has assembled dozens of archives of hacked material from Russian politicians, journalists, bankers, nationalists, separatists, terrorists operating in Ukraine, and people associated with oligarchs. The archives are scheduled to become available on January 25.
Russia has so far been quite successful at keeping these archives, which contain hundreds of thousands of emails, Skype and Facebook messages, documents and more almost entirely off the web. Even when it's available, much of the information is almost impossible for people who don't speak Russian to track down.
It looks like that's about to end. The DDoS project compiled more than 200,000 emails into a spreadsheet for ease of searching. In all, its cache now contains 61 different leaks totaling 175 gigabytes, dwarfing, by quantity at least, Russia’s leaks against the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton campaign. The collection includes files from Alexander Budberg, a Russian columnist married to Dmitry Medvedev’s press secretary; Kirill Frolov, vice-director of the Kremlin-backed Institute for CIS Countries; and Vladislav Surkov, a top aide to Vladimir Putin who was hacked by CyberHunta in October 2016. The Surkov files contained documentary evidence of the Kremlin’s covert coordination with pro-Russia separatists within Ukraine, and though the Kremlin denounced the leak as a fake, several independent forensics examiners agreed the emails were the real deal.
Co-founder Best, who has distinguished herself by aggressively using the Freedom of Information Act to compel the US government to disgorge information, is particularly respected for her ability to compile and organize leaked data.
