The scale of the attack is unprecedented
Mobile phone numbers, addresses, private family conversations, vacation pictures, bills, communications between politicians, work emails etc. were leaked
In most cases, Outlook was hacked, in some cases also Facebook, Twitter etc.
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The leaked data, which was illegally collected until October 2018 and released December 2018, but just found now, is still publicly available. I searched through it 5 hours last night, read maybe 3%of it and already found cases of corruption and bad political scandals.
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It will be thus very hard for journalists to determine what they do with the data now. We must act responsibly, but we must also not forget that if we do not report accurately on the info in the leaked data, others – right-wing extremists – will do it. Unique situation.
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Also hacked were around 40 German public TV journalists and 10 artists, most of them known for their left-leaning political stance. Also from the artists, comedians, moderators etc partially very private data was leaked, in some cases nonetheless only mobile number.
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You didn’t see me using the word “Russia” so far as there is no evidence for its involvement so far. But what I can say is that hackers needed months if not years to collect, inspect, categorize and describe the leaked data, pointing at a group of high professionalism.
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The Twitter channel of the hackers - active since 2015 and posting the
#BTleaks hacks all over December 2018 - has finally been suspended.pic.twitter.com/YalkJGojT9
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Government presser: German intelligence had NO IDEA of the
#BTleaks until last night! Also the chancellory was informed last night. A Supergau. Hacks were ongoing for months or years.pic.twitter.com/SPUDDMQ4xl
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#UPDATE We can now say that some of the data collection of former or current German MPs reach back to 2009. We can also say that the hackers removed single data sets after they collected and screened them. This raises the possibility of more, compromising, data being out there.Show this thread -
First German MPs receive Twitter messages, asking them to admit their real sexual preferences. The hackers obtained pornographic material of them ...
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"We will not use such sensitive data in any way, not now and not in the future."
@BILD's editor-in-chief@jreichelt released a statement, explaining how we as Germany's largest newspaper will deal with the hacked and leaked private information.#BTleakspic.twitter.com/bOBcfe0I3V
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2/2 ,Germany's Parliamentary Control Council, intel services and the public were not informed. Before the BSI chief admitted the MP contacts yesterday evening, his spokesperson claimed at the govt. press conference that the BSI just learned about the
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Hi! please find the unroll here: Thread by
@JulianRoepcke: " Germany faces the biggest hacker attack in its history. Private data of almost 1000 German , […]"#BREAKING#Bundestag https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1081089419728306176.html … Talk to you soon.
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How can the information be accepted on its face? Couldn’t it also have been edited or altered? And what’s gotten released is what fits the desired narrative- much could be omitted as well.
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YES. This is what happened in the US. Messages were seeded and rearranged and filtered. Journalists shld pay more attention to the bots and how the response is being set up.
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That is not what happened in the US... the Wikileaks emails are verified.. they are still used by researchers and are the most reliable documents out there...always have been..
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So we’ll see, but we also know what was leaked was selected for particular effects, and the GOP was also hacked but nothing was released.
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Meaning that the hackers have the GOP on a leash. Otherwise known as blackmail. Exhibit A: Lindsey Graham.
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That is conjecture as well...the NSA has all the emails and the telephone conversations of everyone on the planet.. that is not conjecture..
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