Hackers published 175 gigabytes of Russian documents on the ROC and the war on the Donbass

On Friday, January 25, the Distributed Denial of Secrets Project (DDoSecrets) unveiled an important collection of Russian-sourced documents obtained through hacking and information leaks.

Most of the documents shedding light on the Russian war in Ukraine, links between the Kremlin and the Russian Orthodox Church, etc., have already been published in Russia, Ukraine and other countries. The volume of material is 175 gigabytes, writes Ukrainska Pravda referring to the New York Times.

As the group DDoSecrets noted in its Twitter the main file of the new collection, entitled The Dark Side of the Kremlin, includes "Hundreds of Thousands of Messages and Folders". Russian politicians, journalists, oligarchs, religious figures and nationalists / terrorists in Ukraine. "

Documents include a mass archive of documents from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, which WikiLeaks refused to publish in 2016. Numerous e-mails and other Russian documents were received by the group of halols "Shaltay Boltai" , documents of the Russian arms exporter "Rosoboronexport" and documents related to the falsification of the history of the fall of Malay passenger flight MH17 in July 2014 were published.

The new site works around by the WikiLeaks model – inviting hackers and informants to send confidential documents

The New York Times writes that Ukrainian hackers have worked hard to denounce the Russian secret occupation . Crimea and ORDLO, businessmen have resorted to hackers against rivals, activists have sought to unmask the police and security forces.

"Archives received from e-mails and internal documents have been posted on the Internet and the new collection seeks to bring everything together in one place",

Emma Best, a Boston journalist who helped organize DDoSecrets, told the publication that the site was hosted by fewer than 20 people living in different countries, but that most would prefer not to be named. [19659002] Best stated that about two weeks ago, when RF-related documents were collected but not yet published, someone tried to erase one of the servers from the group.

In this regard, the group expedited the publication of documents for several weeks and kept copies. Archive in several places to avoid its destruction.