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Anonymous Release 10TB Leaked Data Exposing Kremlin Assets, Russian Businesses

swdev281634

I downloaded and extracted the files in a fresh Linux virtual machine with tools for viewing Word, Excel, and PDF documents. After reviewing the contents for about 30 minutes, the data appears technically authentic—not AI-generated—but nothing particularly noteworthy stood out.

The files "Vulnerabilities/Fetched Data.txt" appear to be output from an automated security scanner that targeted public-facing web servers. Some directory labels are inaccurate. For instance, a company listed as a crypto exchange—Cryptopro—is actually an IT consulting firm focused on cryptography and PKI.

A number of Word, Excel, and PDF files containing corporate reports and similar materials appear to be publicly accessible online and even indexed by search engines. I was able to locate several by searching their titles.

One file, "Part 1/Report those Russian ringleaders/russRingleadersPerDFUNAFO.txt", seems to be the likely source of the "Kremlin Assets in the West" mention. It’s a brief list of Twitter accounts and may have been assembled through open-source intelligence methods.

While the leak might contain some mistakenly published or sensitive material, I didn’t come across anything as significant or dramatic as implied by the article linked.

ValveFan6969

Who woulda thunk the AI generated article doesn't know what it's talking about

mmastrac

From a quick scan of the file listing of the 18GB compressed folder linked for download elsewhere, looks like it's a collection of completely random data hacked over a number of years from various accounts that may or may not be connected with Russia (Guy Ritchie? Kanye West? Why?).

Also, why a PNG?

  2022-12-02 10:25:11 ....A        10530        10092  Leaked Data of corrupt officials/Part 1/Leaked Data of Kanye West's Instagram account/IP, Port, Hostname.png
  2022-12-02 10:26:08 ....A        39852        37635  Leaked Data of corrupt officials/Part 1/Leaked Data of Kanye West's Instagram account/SSL info.png
  2022-12-02 10:27:01 ....A       124662       114729  Leaked Data of corrupt officials/Part 1/Leaked Data of Kanye West's Instagram account/Vulnerabilities.png
Some bank data seems to be exposed here (internal control panels), but in other cases it's just a dump of public website HTML?

10TB seems just plain wrong (didn't bother downloading the whole thing, though).

jijijijij

> Vulnerabilities.png

Clever. Instagram is an image hosting platform. At the firewall, guards watching the network traffic wouldn't notice png encrypted screenshots of cracked IP addresses being exfiltrated, drifting in plain sight in the usual pixel streams.

mmastrac

I didn't bother looking at the files, but I would wager that it's not as clever as you suggested here. If there's gold in this leak, I'd suggest it's buried in an Everest of crap.

jijijijij

Sorry, I tried humor.

jmclnx

Yikes, the archive article asked me to install Abobe Flash, and I am on Linux. I guess it is really from Russia :)

constantcrying

It's an article from an Indian right wing conspiracy news website. Check out their other hard hitting journalism: https://archive.ph/8RGAb

kcindric

oufff, okay, this puts the reliability of the article much lower now.

starspangled

Well gentlemen, we will always remember this as the day we almost caught Donald J. Trump, again.

Craighead

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Rallen89

Seems very dubious, new accounts in the comments urging people to download it ( u/Sonnigeszeug) all the 'sources' go back to the same file, claims it is on torrent trackers yet providing no evidence for? A very sensational article with no proof and if it was true downloading russian government data with no idea whats in it? the sweetest of honey right here

constantcrying

I am sure the other reports from the website are very real: https://archive.ph/8RGAb

A_D_E_P_T

Most people have absolutely no way to handle a 10TB file, anyway. Even 1TB csv files can be a challenge. Need to use DuckDB or chunk it somehow.

A lot of ways to hide nasty surprises in such a file, too.

miningape

Pack it into a nice executable "csv" and you've got baby's first malware

kurtis_reed

What baby?

Sonnigeszeug

Dude... i'm a software engineere in germany.

I create new accounts because i spend too much time on hn...

I suggest to download stuff because i assume people on HN are well equiped to check it out.

Click yourself some cheap vm in the cloud, download it, check it out. Cost involved? $10

Do you expect journalists with less it knowledge to do this? I mean yeah they can and should but people on hn should do too

benterix

> i'm a software engineere in germany.

Fake German detected. A true one would write "I'M A Software Engineer In Germany".

znpy

they said he is a software engineer in germany. they didn't say they are from germany.

kif

"Leaked data" seems like a stretch. Sounds like someone ran a vulnerability scanner on some Twitter accounts. Don't have time to go through all the data though, so maybe there are interesting things in there.

ty6853

It is is a real thing though that Russian databases are routinely compromised or stolen.

People that engage in tax fraud in places like Mexico and Russia often legitimately do it because they do not want the mob/cartels to find out how much money they have and then extort them. The data gets out.

pseudo0

Yeah, from the screenshots on Twitter a lot of it looks like archives of publicly accessible Twitter and Telegram accounts, plus data from old breaches. That makes it seem pretty unlikely there will be anything new and valuable here.

Rallen89

Any validity besides one news article? seems to be getting the hug of death atm.

EdwardDiego

Hugged? Or DOSed?

42lux

Just download the data and validate it yourself if you are skeptical? I guess that's why they released it...

Rallen89

10 TB file from a random website that I have never heard of? Seems like if someone was to leak this a more reputable news agency would have been notified instead of... trendsnewsline

42lux

You don't have to download the whole 10TB...

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Sonnigeszeug

Who if not people / experts reading on hn?

Click yourself any server anywhere, download it, analyse it, share your findings.

owebmaster

That's a fast way to get hacked or become a target. We can do better in this forum security-wise

42lux

We are on a forum were most users should know how to operate data that has the probability of malware in it...

rokkamokka

That's fun. Someone feeling up to feeding the 90k trump files into an LLM for a synopsis?

close04

> the 90k trump files

Just a question I asked below. That's the size column in WinRAR (left of the Compressed column). Is it by coincidence also the number of files?

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t0lo

That's the worst ai summary i've ever read. I could surmise that in my brain from like 3 sentences about the issue

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Havoc

Can we please keep the AI junk off hn…

Bad enough that it’s everywhere else

pseudo0

Why are you quoting AI slop from reddit? That's an incredibly vague summary of the article about the leaked data and provides no useful information.

deepnet

Because the article is currently down so the summary is all there is for now.

Yes it provides no extra information but in the [hnews hug of death] of the article it is the only information at the moment

jijijijij

If this is real, there will be claims made and the general public has no way to verify. 10TB is technically challenging to handle for the vast majority of people. Would be really important for someone to re-upload and index the extracted files for online browsing.

xyst

Just like the Panama Papers?

Did anything even happen after the Mossack Fonseca law firm was hacked? All I remember was a few people stepping down from govt positions, some rich folks get caught in the xfire (some football player used them).

But nobody went to jail.

agilob

>Did anything even happen after the Mossack Fonseca law firm was hacked?

Yes, the journalist who reported on it was killed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_Caruana_Galizia#Panama_...

constantcrying

"If this is real". Do you think this is real: https://archive.ph/8RGAb ?

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t0lo

So do we have a verdict yet? Anything more than scraped osint and telegram chats?

scotty79

Finally. More than 3 years to get russia hacked properly is a bit much. I think IT security got a bit too secure for the safety of freedom.

yobannyvrot

One ai slop article, and an 18gb mediafirelink from some twitter literally who. Taking bets for complete nothingburger...

constantcrying

What is wrong with people. Who believes this is real?

Do you really think a WordPress website from India posting obvious fake news and conspiracies should be trusted?

Do you think the source that brought you this is reliable in any way: https://archive.ph/8RGAb "Shocking Footage: Hunter Biden & Ellen Caught in Adrenochrome Bust!"

t0lo

People need to believe someone else out there will solve their geopolitical problems for them.

constantcrying

I thought at least people on this website would be able decipher that this is an obvious fake news website, it also posts some of the most generic right wing conspiracy theories. Quite disappointing to be honest.

otabdeveloper4

> Do you really think a WordPress website from India posting obvious fake news and conspiracies should be trusted?

Depends. Does it validate my Russian collusion delusion?