under the name BlueLeaks 2.0
BlueLeaks 2.0 contains millions of submissions and tips alleged crimes and terrorist acts made over several decades. The data comes from the apps and infrastructure of P3 (a subsidiary of Navigate360), which is used by intelligence and law enforcement agencies across the United States and in several other countries, as well as tens of thousands of schools. According to the company, it's the "#1 Platform for Fusion Centers and Major City Intel Units." The data also includes information on the company's customer accounts, in addition to copies of the support requests submitted by users.
The dataset challenges some of the statements made by P3. While P3 says that the communications on the system are encrypted, however the data was allegedly retrieved in plaintext. P3 also claims that the tip collection and messaging process is anonymous, however the data indicates that administrators are secretly given the ability to de-anonymize users.
The data was provided to Distributed Denial of Secrets and Mikael Thalen (of Straight Arrow News) by a hacktivist group calling themselves the INTERNET YIFF MACHINE. The INTERNET YIFF MACHINE included a note with the data, which reads (in part):
The INTERNET YIFF MACHINE presents... A dump of Police "Anonymous" Tipline, P3Tips.
P3tips has clients such as: U.S Air Force, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (FUCK ICE) U.S Secret Service, U.S Department of Justice U.S Army CI, IRS Criminal Investigations Homeland Security Investigations, State and county governments/Police
Remember folks, don't do the dirty work for the pigs. Investigating crime is their job, not yours. They don't care you, they want convictions and prisoners to fuel the for-profit prisons.
We are all cogs in the internet yiff machine; a machine that formed itself, a product of the rich and powerful, a machine that's cogs are always turning. We are made of copper wire, motherboards, fur, and homosexuality.
Fight the Fascists. Hack the police, the government, corporations and billionaires. Use our name, YOUR name, to release your hacks. We are the INTERNET YIFF MACHINE.
Internet Yiff Machine: We hacked 93GB of “anonymous” crime tips (Ars Technica) Archive link
Tips from Luigi Mangione manhunt exposed in Crime Stoppers hack (Straight Arrow News) Archive link
Crime Stoppers: Origins of the not-so-anonymous tipline (Straight Arrow News) Archive link
Portland police urge residents to avoid Crime Stoppers following hack (Straight Arrow News) Archive link
Filtración de datos de Crime Stoppers no afecta a Guatemala, asegura representante local (Prensa Libre) Archive link
Alleged Crime Stoppers informant breach compromises over 8.3M records (SC Media) Archive link
A potential breach of an anonymous tip app could have exposed sensitive student data (EducationWeek) Archive link
Millions of Crime Stoppers tips exposed, challenging the anonymity promise (Cybernews) [No archive link]
Hacker says they compromised millions of confidential police tips held by US company (Reuters) [No archive link]
Millions of Anonymous Crime Tips Exposed in Massive Crime Stoppers Hack (Straight Arrow News) Archive link
Statement by Emma Best for the release of BlueLeaks 2.0 (Emma Best) Archive link
Source README Archive link (GhostArchive) Archive link (Wayback Machine)
BlueLeaks (Wikipedia) Revision link Archive link
P3 Tip Management Software Archive link
P3 Fusion Archive link
P3 Community Crime Archive link
P3 Campus Archive link
Security Summary- P3 Archive link
Anonymous Tip Reporting Knowledge Base Archive link
Screenshot of P3 offering to de-anonymize users Archive link
To preserve the privacy of the people discussed in the submissions, the data is only being made available to established journalists and researchers .
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