5.7TB of Berlin government data hacked and dumped on the dark web
kimmonismus · x · 2026-09-05
A major breach has hit Berlin: about 5.7TB of highly sensitive government data, reportedly including classified information and disaster-related records, was stolen and is now freely available on the dark web — described as the worst-case scenario.
The absurd part, per the author: security experts currently rate the risk as moderate, since criminals would first need to sift through the massive dataset to do real harm.
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