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Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/4\/22\/23036079\/russian-emails-leaked-ddosecrets<\/a>
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The city of Blagoveshchensk sits in the far east of Russia, some 3,500 miles from Moscow and further still from Kyiv. Across a river, the Chinese city of Heihe sprawls to the south, joined by the first Sino-Russian road bridge<\/a>; beside the bridge, there\u2019s little about the city to make the news. <\/p>\n

But the public affairs of the city are now laid bare for anyone willing to look in the form of 150GB of emails from the Blagoveshchensk City Administration published online by the transparency collective Distributed Denial of Secrets \u2014 just one of many data sets leaked to the organization since the invasion of Ukraine began.<\/p>\n

As the war in Ukraine approaches the 60-day mark, leaks from the country have been coming at an unprecedented rate. On April 20th, DDoSecrets co-founder Emma Best tweeted<\/a> that the collective has published 5.8 terabytes of leaks since the invasion started, with no signs of slowing down.<\/p>\n

On the day of that tweet, DDoSecrets published two new leaked email caches: 575,000 emails from property management company Sawatzky and 250,000 emails from Worldwide Invest, a Moscow-based investment firm.<\/p>\n

In the \u201cRussia\u201d category, the leaks now include a huge cross-section of Russian society, including banks, oil and gas companies, and the Russian Orthodox Church. Relative to some of the other leaked content sourced by DDoSecrets, the Blagoveshchensk emails represent only a mid-sized leak. The smallest data set (a list of the personal details for <\/em>120,000 Russian soldiers in Ukraine) is a mere 22MB while the largest (20 years of emails from a Russian state-owned broadcaster) is a whopping 786GB.<\/p>\n

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I don’t think people fully appreciate just how much, after invading Ukraine, people are hacking Russia. There are multiple hacks a week and it’s only increasing. For first time in internet history Russia is fair game for cyber attacks, and this is what it looks like <\/p>\n

\u2014 Micah (@micahflee) April 19, 2022<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

DDoSecrets is not the only place to host leaks coming out of Russia, but it is now indisputably the most active \u2014 even though DDoSecrets member Lorax Horne says <\/em>the organization isn\u2019t explicitly trying to publish information that is pro-Ukraine or anti-Russia.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor folks who haven\u2019t heard of DDoSecrets before last month, they can be forgiven for assuming we\u2019ve taken a position,\u201d Horne told The Verge<\/em>. \u201cBut really it has to do with the data we receive. If we were getting datasets from the other side, we would also consider that for publication. It just so happens that the majority of the datasets that are coming out are related to Russian entities.\u201d<\/p>\n

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