National Fusion Center Association

June 21, 2020

‘BlueLeaks’ Exposes Files from Hundreds of Police Departments

This post was originally published on this siteHundreds of thousands of potentially sensitive files from police departments across the United States were leaked online last week. The collection, dubbed “BlueLeaks” and made searchable online, stems from a security breach at a Texas web design and hosting company that maintains a number of state law enforcement data-sharing portals. The collection — nearly 270 gigabytes in total — is the latest release from Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets), an alternative to Wikileaks that publishes caches of previously secret data. A partial screenshot of the BlueLeaks data cache. In a post on Twitter, […]