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Germany seizes server hosting pilfered “Blue Leaks” U.S. police files

Posted on July 9, 2020 by Dissent

Frank Bajak reports:

At the behest of the U.S. government, German authorities have seized a computer server that hosted a huge cache of files from scores of U.S. federal, state and local law enforcement agencies obtained in a Houston data breach last month.

The server was being used by a WikiLeaks-like data transparency collective called Distributed Denial of Secrets to share documents — many tagged “For Official Use Only” — that shed light on U.S. police practices.

Read more of this AP story on StarTribune.


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