Twitter has permanently banned the group that published the ‘BlueLeaks’ police files obtained by hackers – Business Insider India

Twitter has permanently banned DDoSecrets, a Wikileaks-style publisher that linked to a trove of hacked police files dubbed "BlueLeaks" this week.

The leaked files were not classified but were previously unpublished, and showed police departments and the FBI exchanging information about the names, appearances, and Twitter handles of George Floyd protesters. DDoSecrets did not carry out the hack that leaked the police files instead, similar to Wikileaks, the group merely hosts files that hackers pass along.

But it's unclear why DDoSecrets was banned for republishing hacked material while Wikileaks has been doing the same for years while retaining its Twitter account. Dozens of news outlets, including Business Insider, also published stories that included material from the BlueLeaks hacks. Twitter did not answer Business Insider's questions about what makes DDoSecrets' case different from those other outlets.

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DDoSecrets editor-in-chief Lorax B. Horne also drew attention to Twitter's uneven enforcement, listing more than two dozen news outlets that have published stories that include data from DDoSecrets.

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