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... Hackread.com has seen the leaked data however due to its humongous size, it was virtually and physically impossible to scan each file/folder. Nevertheless, our limited analysis shows that the exposed records included years worth of financial records with some documents going as far back as 1999.
Furthermore, invoices, internal communication, documents, memos, bank statements, names of shareholders of various banks, bank licenses, names, addresses of apparently high-profile customers/clients, etc. are part of the leaked records. .........
multigraincracker
(32,527 posts)Now, how about that Anonymous?
grumpyduck
(6,197 posts)for stuff connected to tfg?
If this were a movie, they'd find it immediately. 😀
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)niyad
(112,426 posts)cbabe
(3,438 posts)projection.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)KS Toronado
(16,901 posts)Duppers
(28,094 posts)ificandream
(9,192 posts)Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)His bank, tax and legal records would be a kick, though.
erronis
(14,942 posts)Sorry.
(The reference is from Stormy Daniel's personal account of his thing.)
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)cab67
(2,962 posts)As I've said elsewhere, the group's track record for attacking people who've genuinely done something wrong, and not accidentally naming the wrong person, is far less than perfect. Its mistakes have damaged many innocent lives, in some cases of children and their parents.
There's a reason investigative journalists are trained to become investigative journalists. They make mistakes, but far fewer of them, and they can be held accountable when they do.
Tommymac
(7,263 posts)I would not be surprised at all if the CIA or the USCC (US Cyber Command) is involved in this particular cell.
Of coarse their are the classic 'basement' cells too, but they are not usually active until the US High Schools go on summer break.
But the professional cells are legion.
All in all Anonymous at the very least acts as a safety valve and tripwire when it comes to cyberspace.
The good hackers do stuff like this; the bad crackers are malicious. And sometimes it takes perspective to tell them apart.
In this case, to Putin they are evil Crackers, to the rest of the world saintly Hackers.
cab67
(2,962 posts)Ken Cuccinelli was one of the first state attorneys general to accept the reality that people are sometimes wrongfully convicted. He acted to expedite exonerations at a time when others fought tooth and nail against them. (Some still do.) He even hired an exoneree in his own office.
That doesnt change the fact that Cuccinelli is, on the whole, a bigoted, ignorant loudmouth.
Same thing. That some operating under the Anonymous banner sometimes act for good doesnt remove the stain of false accusations and disrupted lives created along the way. Good riddance to them.
PatSeg
(46,779 posts)That kind of wealth is obscene.
SergeStorms
(18,882 posts)who reads and speaks Russian fluently.
Any volunteers?
BobTheSubgenius
(11,535 posts)I do find it a bit troubling that information that sensitive is so easy to get. What does that mean in a larger sense, if you put "us" in place of "oligarchs" and "someone made of avarice and venality' in place of "Anonymous?"
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)is anonymity. Computers require highly skilled techies, and those techies are not always autocracy enablers. I suspect a lot of the ability to get inside somewhere is due to the insiders, the techies the systems rely on, openiong the proverbial gate, unlocking the door.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,535 posts)Hackers can do some amazing things. I've known two - one, second-hand - that were offered to face no criminal charges in exchange for showing the FBI, in one case, and the RCMP in the other, how they did it. The Canadian one was the one I knew personally, and he had to "work" for them for a while.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)The best security is only as secure as the people whose job it is to keep it secure.
bringthePaine
(1,726 posts)SayItLoud
(1,696 posts)Be nice to see how he got $ for his campaign, Scottish Golf resort, home in Bahamas ....what that server in tRUMP Tower doing...etc etc etc.
Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)JonAndKatePlusABird
(303 posts)But any time I see a headline of Anonymous leaks (10-99)GB of data, Im more and more assuming they got ahold of someones mailbox and dumped that.
Im an IT professional and have worked at large enterprises, and have specifically done email-related things.
For reference, the max mailbox size on Office365 (Microsofts email solution that just about every company uses, if you or your company uses Outlook, its prolly O365) is 100GB. Largest mailbox Ive personally seen was 85GB, and it was an exec that had been at the org for 20+ years and never deleted anything.
Attachments will skew the number hugely too
its conceivable to have image files that are 10, 20, 30MB in size, so attach three of those to a single email, and thats 60MB right there (1024 MegaBytes (MB) = 1 GigaByte (GB)) And say you get at least 6 emails like that per day
you can quickly use up that 100GB limit.
Point being, dont take data size (a value quoted in bytes/kB/MB/GB/TB) as anything but that. Would be like a law firm saying we obtained 80,000 pages in discovery. Ok, great, and
.? Without further context its nothing more than a data point.
BGBD
(3,282 posts)28GB is pretty small, particularly when talking about scanned documents. It sounds like they got some bodies mailbox.
Banks would have thousands of terabytes of data if they scanned all of their records.
The odds there is anything of actual value in these seems low to me. Anonymous is well known for overhyping their actions and using pretty simple "hacks". Things like phishing or denial of service attacks.
Trueblue1968
(17,138 posts)CALL TO ACTIVISM
@CalltoActivism
BOOM: Anonymous leaks 28 gigabytes of Russian documents including detailed bank statements of Russias wealthiest along with this message to Putin: We have your economic secrets now, you will tremble with fear.
2:24 PM · Mar 26, 2022