Hundreds of thousands of highly sensitive files from police departments across the world were leaked online last week. The collection, dubbed “BlueLeaks”, stems from a security breach at a Texas web design and hosting company that maintains a number of state law enforcement data-sharing portals.
Hundreds of thousands of highly sensitive files from police departments across the world were leaked online last week
Called BlueLeaks, the collection is nearly 270 gigabytes in total
The information was leaked by DDoSecrets, that publishes caches of previously secret data
The data published by BlueLeaks was taken after a security breach at Netsential, a Houston-based web development firm
Ten years of data from over 200 police departments, fusion centers and other law enforcement training and support resources were leaked
Among the hundreds of thousands of documents are police and FBI reports, bulletins, guides and more
The dates of the files in the leak actually span nea...