German Data Hack

Hacked info on German politicians and celebrities has been published on the web. Presumably, the German pols and celebs refused to pay the ransom.

The hacking group behind this is The Dark Over Lord. (DOL). DOL has been posting on Steemit.

This is an interesting event, if there is substance in the data that has been allegedly hacked. Germany's Interior Minister, Horst Seehofer, seeks answers on the success of the hack. DW:

The interior minister said he would share everything he finds out with the public by the middle of the next week at the latest.

But it gets more complicated than that. Same link:

German political parties have criticized the country's cyber defense agency, the Federal Office for IT Safety (BSI), for its handling of the data breach.

The BSI clarified that it only became aware  of the full extent of the breach earlier this week on Saturday, a day after BSI chief Arne Schönbohm said the agency had known about isolated breaches in early December.

The Green party's parliamentary leader, Anton Hofreiter, demanded Schönbohm explain himself urgently to an extraordinary parliamentary committee meeting.

The deputy leader of the business-friendly Free Democrats (FDP), Wolfgang Kubicki, suggested that Schönbohm should quit.

"A president who first says he's known about the breach since the beginning of December and then backtracks to say he's only known about it since January 3 must ask himself if he's the right man for the job," he said.

Something is amiss here with BSI. What, I don't know. Or has yet to be discovered and reported.

While the DOL was a Big Hack, the Island Packet states, it doesn't appear to have revealed any major political scandals. (Not even one, lost Hillary email?)

WIRED writes: 

The trove of leaked documents is massive but early assessments indicate that it seems focused less on exposing state secrets than it does on revealing deeply personal information about its targets. The exposed data includes internal political communications, like emails and scans of faxes, along with credit card information, home addresses, phone numbers, personal identification card details, private chat logs, and even voicemails from relatives and children.

Not so fast on the "no scandals/no secrets". At Computer Business Review, the second link of this post, the story states the hack revealed a lot of information that is mirrored (duplicated) at numerous sites and there's a lot of data to comb through.

The leak was made with strenuous effort to ensure that the leaked documents can’t easily be taken down. There there over 70 mirrors of the initial download link alone, while each of the 40 download links has another 3-5 mirrors each.

Each of the tens of thousands of files uploaded appears to have its own or indeed multiple mirrors; something that would have taken a huge amount of manpower.
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“3 percent” of the data had already revealed “cases of corruption and bad political scandals”. 4chan users were already revelling [sic] in some of the scandals today, from sexual proclivities to Wikipedia edits by politicians.

Tru News reports the DOL has begun releasing 9/11 documents.

By themselves, the new documents don’t set off too many alarms, but they do establish that The Dark Overlord certainly had access to sensitive materials.
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[The DOL states], “The United States of America & All Involved Parties,” also added:

“This is a message for the nation-state of the United States of America and the greater deep-state.

“We're going to continue to bend you over a barrel and [expletive] you if our demands are not met. You know the score. Your censorship and fakenews coverups won't silence this organisation or its public support. You were warned. To all the other parties involved (airlines, litigation firms, investigation firms, FBI, TSA, FAA, banks, security companies and more), we're going to burn you down unless you begin to 'play ball'. This entire situation will soon become far more tragick to your survival. Make the right choise.

“We're peeling these layers back like an onion. No one can save you except for us. Pay the [expletive] up.”

The use of English grammar and punctuation, particularly in the ransom demands, strongly suggests the author of both statements is not from the U.S.

Or, grammatically incorrect on purpose? Or, so the Germans would have us believe? I'm not making light of anything here with that last link, who knows what information could have been hacked? We won't know until, or if, it's leaked. The DOL story is not unlike Q, or QAnon, which Phil explained so well.

For me, at times I find it difficult making sense out of the time-lines, and determining what's important and what to disregard, on issues like this at the threads at the Chan sites. This global hack, and issues like it, will reveal themselves over time. I'd imagine any explosive revelation in any forthcoming release from the hack would be headlined everywhere. We'll see. Your thoughts?