Finding the Report, A group of Hacktivists and advocates have published a huge data of 269 GB of Data Leaked allegedly stolen from 200 Police departments, fusion centers, and other law enforcement agencies across the United States.
From the Blue Leaks, the data which is exposed or leaked by the DDoSecrets group which contains hundreds of sensitive documents from the past 10 years that may include official and personal information.
DDoSecrets of the Distributed Denial of secrets works the same as the WikiLeaks include transparency work. they publicly publish data and classified information that is submitted by the hackers while claiming the organizations themselves and never get involved in the extraction of the data.
As the hacktivist Group, the BlueLeaks dump having the information of “Police and FBI reports, guides, bulletins and more details which provide the unique insights into enforcement and a wide array of government activities that include the thousands of documents mentioning about the COVID19.
We are gonna find a Screenshots of the Blue Leaks dump which show the data contains around millions of the files which include images, document, videos, web pages, text files, emails, audio files and more though they yet to investigate how many files are classified and that not supposed to be public.
The Blueleaks having the data which contained intelligence on protests include the recent countrywide “Black Lives matter” and that protest in the U.S which followed the death of George Floyd at the time when he was in the custody of Minneapolis.
The Blue Leaks have the list of U.S agencies are :
- Alabama Fusion Center
- Austin Regional Intelligence Center
- Boston Regional Intelligence Center
- Colorado Information Analysis Center
- California Narcotic Officers’ Association
- Delaware Information and Analysis Center
- FBI Houston Citizens Academy Alumni Association
- FBI National Academy Association Arkansas/Missouri Chapter
- FBI National Academy Association Michigan Chapter
- FBI National Academy Association of Texas
When Finding it appears that the source of the massive data stems from a security breach at Houston-based web hosting ‘Netsential Inc’, and the web server for the National Fusion Center Association (NFCA) is hosted as security bloggers mention it.
The Fusion centers are having the information centers which enable intelligence sharing between local, territorial law enforcement, tribal and federal agencies which maximizing the ability to detect, investigate, prevent and respond to criminal and terrorist activities.
The NFCA confirmed that the “Data leaked was actually of around 24 years which are from August 1996 through June 19, 2020. The document which includes names, email addresses, phone number, PDF documents, images, and a large number of text, video, CSV and ZIP files”.
Netsential confirmed about the threat actor which had leveraged a compromised Netsential customer user account and the web platforms upload features and exfiltrated other Netsential customer data which include U.S police agencies.
NetSential is the same web hosting company that can previously be abused by the attackers that infect targeted victims with ransomware by sending spoofed spear-phishing emails.
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