Distributed Denial of Secrets

Distributed Denial of Secrets is a whistleblower site.[1][2] It is best known for its publication of a large and embarrassing collection of internal police documents, known as BlueLeaks.

The group's servers were located in Germany, and German authorities seized those servers.[3][4][5]

Twitter, and other social media companies, cooperated with police, by suspending the group's accounts, and making their past posts inaccessible.[6][7][8][9][10][11] Twitter cited its terms of service, which explicitly bars the distributing of “content obtained through hacking that contains private information, may put people in harm or danger, or contains trade secrets.” However, Emma Best, one of the group's founders, called twitter's actions "heavy-handed", as they suspended users whose tweets had linked to archives where leaked material could be found, they also suspended users whose tweets merely mentioned the leak.

The group also published material from German banks that listed Germans who were profiting from hiding their assets in tax havens.[12][13][14]

See also

References
  1. Andy Greenberg (2020-06-22). "Hack Brief: Anonymous Stole and Leaked a Megatrove of Police Documents". Wired magazine. Archived from the original on 2020-06-23. Retrieved 2020-07-20. 'It's the largest published hack of American law enforcement agencies,' Emma Best, cofounder of DDOSecrets, wrote in a series of text messages. 'It provides the closest inside look at the state, local, and federal agencies tasked with protecting the public, including [the] government response to COVID and the BLM protests.'
  2. Scott Shane (2019-01-25). "Huge Trove of Leaked Russian Documents Is Published by Transparency Advocates". The New York Times. p. A8. Archived from the original on 2020-07-07. Retrieved 2020-07-20.
  3. Markus Reuter (2020-07-07). "Polizei-Daten aus den USA - BlueLeaks-Server bei Zwickau beschlagnahmt" [Police data from the United States: BlueLeaks server confiscated from Zwickau (update)]. netzpolitik.org (in German). Archived from the original on 2020-07-08. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
  4. Patrick Beuth, Christoph Winterbach. "Staatsanwaltschaft Zwickau stellt Server von Aktivisten sicher - Netzwelt" [Zwickau public prosecutor secures activists' servers]. Der Spiegel (in German). Archived from the original on 2020-07-15. Retrieved 2020-07-20.
  5. Catalin Cimpanu (2020-07-07). "German authorities seize 'BlueLeaks' server that hosted data on US cops". Archived from the original on 2020-07-08. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
  6. Lindsey Ellefson (2020-06-25). "Twitter Suspends Account for Organization That Leaked Police Documents". The Wrap. Archived from the original on 2020-07-17. Retrieved 2020-07-20. The @DDoSecrets account is suspended and inaccessible and a Twitter spokesperson told tech site Gizmodo that the move was done in compliance with the company’s policy against the distribution of hacked materials. The policy outlaws distributing “content obtained through hacking that contains private information, may put people in harm or danger, or contains trade secrets.”
  7. Jakob Jung (2020-06-22). "BlueLeaks: Eine Million US-Polizeiakten gestohlen" [BlueLeaks: One million US police files stolen]. ZDNet (in German). Archived from the original on 2020-06-28. Retrieved 2020-07-20.
  8. Catalin Cimpanu (2020-06-23). "Twitter bans DDoSecrets account over 'BlueLeaks' police data dump". zdnet. Archived from the original on 2020-06-24. Retrieved 2020-06-24.
  9. "'BlueLeaks' Exposes Files from Hundreds of Police Departments". Krebs on Security. 2020-06-22. Archived from the original on 2020-06-22. Retrieved 2020-07-20.
  10. Martin Holland (2020-06-24). "Interne US-Polizeidaten veröffentlicht: Twitter sperrt Account von Leak-Portal" [Internal US police data released: Twitter blocks Leak Portal account]. heise online (in German). Archived from the original on 2020-06-30. Retrieved 2020-07-20.
  11. Sachverständigenrat für externe Links (2020-06-24). "Was vom Tage übrig blieb - BlueLeaks, Boykott und Bias" [What was left of the day: BlueLeaks, boycott and bias]. netzpolitik.org (in German). Archived from the original on 2020-07-08. Retrieved 2020-07-20.
  12. Malte Born; Rafael Buschmann; Roman Höfner; Muriel Kalisch; Sebastian Mondial; Nicola Naber; Sara Wess; Sabrina Winter; Christoph Winterbach; Michael Wulzinger (2020-05-20). "Steueroasen: Die geheimen Firmen deutscher Prominenter auf den Bahamas" [The secret companies of German celebrities in the Bahamas]. Der Spiegel (in German). Archived from the original on 2020-06-09. Retrieved 2020-07-20.
  13. "Hacker veröffentlichen Daten zu Steueroasen" [hacker to publish Data Tax havens]. Deutschlandfunk Nova (in German). 2020-06-25. Archived from the original on 2020-06-28. Retrieved 2020-07-20.
  14. Julia Kastein (2020-07-15). "Beschlagnahmte Server: US-Enthüllungsplattform spricht von Zensur [AUDIO]" [The self-declared "Frugal Four"]. Deutschlandfunk @mediasres (in German). Archived from the original on 2020-06-06. Retrieved 2020-07-20.
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