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Title: NYT: Huge Trove of Leaked Russian Documents Published
Post by: Virginiá on January 26, 2019, 09:28:27 AM
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/25/world/europe/russian-documents-leaked-ddosecrets.html

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Most of the material, which sheds light on Russia’s war in Ukraine as well as ties between the Kremlin and the Russian Orthodox Church, the business dealings of oligarchs and much more, had been released in Russia, Ukraine and elsewhere, sometimes on obscure websites. There were no immediate reports of new bombshells from the collection.

But the sheer volume of the material — 175 gigabytes — and the technical challenges of searching it meant that its full impact may not be felt for some time. The volume is many times greater than the total known material stolen by Russian military intelligence from the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign nearly three years ago.

The core files from the new collection, called “The Dark Side of the Kremlin,” included “hundreds of thousands of messages and files from Russian politicians, journalists, oligarchs, religious figures, and nationalists/terrorists in Ukraine,” said the group that posted it, Distributed Denial of Secrets, or DDoSecrets. The name is a play on the term for a common cyberattack known as a distributed denial of service.

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The documents include a voluminous archive of material hacked from Russia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs that WikiLeaks had declined to publish in 2016, telling Foreign Policy magazine the next year that it “rejects all submissions that it cannot verify” or that it finds “insignificant.”

Also posted are a large collection of Russian emails and other material obtained by Shaltai Boltai, a Russian hacking group; documents from the Russian arms exporting agency Rosoboronexport; and material obtained in what DDoSecrets called a “hacking spree” against Russian targets accused of falsifying the story of the downing in Ukraine of a passenger plane, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, in 2014.

I guess it literally just hit the broader internet, so there is no spicy reveals as of yet, but given the source of a lot of the documents and the sheer size, it might end up providing some interesting headlines over the next year.


Title: Re: NYT: Huge Trove of Leaked Russian Documents Published
Post by: Comrade Funk on January 26, 2019, 12:17:58 PM
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The documents include a voluminous archive of material hacked from Russia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs that WikiLeaks had declined to publish in 2016, telling Foreign Policy magazine the next year that it “rejects all submissions that it cannot verify” or that it finds “insignificant.”
Load of bs


Title: Re: NYT: Huge Trove of Leaked Russian Documents Published
Post by: dead0man on January 26, 2019, 06:28:21 PM
great news


Title: Re: NYT: Huge Trove of Leaked Russian Documents Published
Post by: Frodo on January 26, 2019, 06:58:48 PM
Good to see the Russians getting a taste of their own medicine.