Cops Seize Server that Hosted BlueLeaks, DDoSecrets Says

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https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qj43xq/cops-seize-blueleaks-ddosecrets-server

By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Vice.com
July 7, 2020

Authorities in Germany have seized a server used by the organization that
published a trove of US police internal documents commonly known as BlueLeaks,
according to the organization’s founder.

On Tuesday, Emma Best, the founder of Distributed Denial of Secrets or
DDoSecrets, a WikiLeaks-like website that has published the police data, said
that prosecutors in the German town of Zwickau seized the organization’s
“primary public download server.”

“We are working to obtain additional information, but presume it is [regarding]
#BlueLeaks,” Best added on Twitter. “The server was used ONLY to distribute data
to the public. It had no contact with sources and was involved in nothing more
than enlightening the public through journalistic publishing.”

Best shared a screenshot of the email they received from DDoSecrets’ hosting
provider informing of the server seizure.

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