Like WikiLeaks, only this time it is the eastern colossus that got hit. 108 gigabytes worth of secret mails, documents and recorded talks from Kremlin have just been released online. The culprit is a newly created group of hacktivists called Distributed Denial of Secrets, or DDoS; group has been created in December 2018 by a collective of white hat hackers, journalists and researchers operating from the darknet (parts of the Internet that cannot be found by a simple browser search), whose supposed mission is to dig out hard to find data for beneficial use. According to Emma Best, one of the creators of the group, the ”Dark Side of Kremlin” bundle contains documents concerning Russian politicians, oligarchy, terrorists, members of the church, Ukrainian separatists and more, as well as files from the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs and even such things as Sony data stolen by the North Korean hackers back in 2014. All the stolen documents are supposedly 100% authentical; DDoS is said to be using the same verification methods as WikiLeaks.

What do you think? Personally I am delighted. I did not enjoy the fact that pretty much all the great security leaks so far, like WikiLeaks or Snowden, only hit the Western nations, mostly USA. Now I am glad to see the sort of balance being brought in by exposing many of Russia’s secrets.