‘Blue Leaks’ Exposes Files from Hundreds of Police Departments
Summary: Nearly 270 gigabytes of files from more than 200 police departments, fusion centers and law enforcement training and support resources were published online as "BlueLeaks" by Distributed Denial of Secrets on June 19, 2020. The National Fusion Center Association traced the data to a breach at Netsential, a Houston web development firm, where a threat actor used a compromised customer user account and the platform's upload feature to introduce malicious content and exfiltrate other customer data.
Why it matters: The leaked files span August 1996 through June 19, 2020 and include ACH routing numbers, IBANs, PII and images of suspects in Requests for Information, and former DHS assistant secretary Stewart Baker warned the exposure could compromise undercover officers and human sources, putting lives at risk.
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