The hacker group Anonymous claims to have released a huge amount of data, 10 terabytes, revealing secrets of the Kremlin, corruption, and pro-Russian links with the West, including compromising information about American President Donald Trump.
The data, allegedly extracted from Russian servers, contains information about various entities, including Kremlin officials, Russian businesses, Western assets, and pro-Russian politicians. There are even files titled “Donald Trump,” according to Cybernews.
The official Anonymous profile on social media, @YourAnonCentral, began sharing news of this massive data leak with their 5.2 million followers on X and 435,000 followers on Bluesky on Tuesday.
“In defense of Ukraine, Anonymous has released 10 TB of stolen data about all businesses operating in Russia, all Kremlin assets in the West, pro-Russian officials, Donald Trump, and others,” the post reads.
Security sources immediately began examining this massive amount of data after it was uploaded to the free file hosting service MediaFire.
However, despite efforts to sort through such a large amount of random data and based on the files examined so far, the general consensus seems to be that the leaked information is not very interesting or apparently not exactly secret.
What the information leak contains
It has been widely reported that the leak contains details about various businesses operating within Russia’s borders, both national and international, including financial transactions and affiliations.
Additionally, it contains information about Russian assets located in the West and reveals several pro-Russian officials, some from Western countries, and their ongoing relationships and policies with Moscow.
On Wednesday, Reddit user civilservant2011 downloaded the 18.89 GB compressed archive and posted about its contents on the forum, along with links to multiple file directories on Imgur.
Civilservant2011 also mentioned in the post that, “So far, I haven’t seen any secrets that Ukrainian intelligence agencies probably don’t already know. The archive is still interesting though,” adding that translating the documents was slow because they do not speak Russian.
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