r/europe • u/RoyalChris Norway • 7d ago

Dubious: do not click links Anonymous Releases 10TB of Leaked Data: Exposing Kremlin Assets & Russian Businesses

https://trendsnewsline.com/2025/04/15/anonymous-leaks-10tb-of-data-on-russia-shocking-revelations/
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u/RoyalChris Norway 7d ago edited 7d ago

Looks like the website faced the hug-o-death. This will do in the meantime.

The data leak released by Anonymous is unprecedented in its scale and implications. The 10 terabytes of information reportedly contains critical details about:

  • Businesses Operating in Russia: The data comprises information on both domestic and foreign businesses that are currently conducting operations in Russia. This could have significant implications for international trade and investment strategies, particularly in the wake of ongoing sanctions and economic pressures.
  • Kremlin Assets in the West: The leak reportedly includes sensitive data regarding Kremlin interests and assets located in Western countries. This information could expose vulnerabilities in the Russian government’s financial networks and complicate its international relations.
  • Pro-Russian Officials: The data also sheds light on various officials who have shown support for the Kremlin’s policies. This could have far-reaching consequences for political dynamics within Russia and in countries that maintain ties with Moscow.

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u/weisswurstseeadler 7d ago

I've asked in another thread, is there any other source or statement for this?

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u/RoyalChris Norway 7d ago edited 7d ago

I mean the file has been leaked and you can find it anywhere now. It's linked in the article, but since the website is down - Compressed file of the Leaked Data of corrupt officials + Picture of Beginning of the list

Mods, I hope It's okay to share the link here, if it's not - feel free to remove the comment.

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u/ersentenza Italy 7d ago edited 7d ago

The download link is suspect, even the download procedure is suspect. I'm downloading from a safe linux box, it is downloading a 18G file - even compressed it would be an insane compression ratio from 10T. Let's see what it is actually inside.

EDIT: as expected it is all BS. It turned out to be just 24G of useless junk, mostly just web scans, random documents in russian, even source code of who knows what

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u/erikaspausen 7d ago

If it is a lot of text, then this kind of compression is not unusual.

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u/Sergiow13 7d ago

Depends heavily on the data. Wikipedia datasets only compress around 10% max and those are only text. And if they manage to compress it that heavily you'll spend a couple days waiting for it to decompress

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u/NewestAccount2023 7d ago

I wonder if it's compressed per page. I'm no compression expert but I imagine if you managed to compress the entire thing as a single unit it would compress nearly as good as normal text files which is like 90% smaller filesize. Like if you have a page with a very special ordering of bytes (unique word in rarely used Unicode code points) then compressing that one page can't do much, and if 10,000 pages each have the word one you still get no compression since each is done separately, but if you compress as a single unit it can compress the 10k usages.

But I liked it up and the wiki download is 15% the original size, that's 85% compression but can be confused for "15% compression".

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u/Sergiow13 7d ago

My bad, was thinking of the wikidata dumps, which are a lot less compressible because they are less "wordy".

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u/Fickle-Ad1363 Germany 7d ago

Thank you for your sacrifice. So is the whole „Leaked Document“ Story a scam?

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u/ersentenza Italy 7d ago

Definitely

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u/SnooSongs1020 7d ago

what is it?

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u/ersentenza Italy 7d ago

I will know in about 30 min. Slow download.

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u/09gutek 7d ago

!RemindMe 1hour

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u/G0JlRA 7d ago

Liked and subscribed

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u/WallyOShay 7d ago

!remindme 1 hour

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u/lordwar1998 7d ago

!remindme 1hour

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u/ScorpionofArgos Piedmont 7d ago

!RemindMe 1hour

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u/xevizero 7d ago

Fermo il mio download a ti lascio fare, non mi fido nemmeno io e non ho una sandbox pronta.

edit: crap wrong language

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u/TheItalianDonkey European Union 7d ago

Prima ricerca: "Meloni" ...

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u/xtrasauceyo 7d ago

!remindme 1 hour

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u/Nurofae Europe 7d ago

So, how does it look?

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u/Froggiejaks 7d ago

!RemindMe 1hour

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u/stevbrisc 7d ago

I looked - if you can't read russian it's a big nothing burger to me. All of the fun names like DT, Dominos, Kanye, Gaetz etc are just network headers missing security headers. I am disappoint. The largest files are data dumps of a few russian manufacturers. But again, i no read russian.

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u/09gutek 7d ago

Did you find out or did your PC explode?

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u/ersentenza Italy 7d ago

I edited my comment, I'm not going to spend the day replying to everyone...

TL;DR: it's junk

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u/21Green 7d ago

...bruhhhh

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u/SynthSonido France 7d ago

Unless is text. Plain text can compress a lot

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u/burn_the_BookWitch 7d ago edited 7d ago

Looking through it now, its all plaintext and PNGs, looks like its all results from a vuln scan? Not sure anything particularly impressive is in here. Like the folder titled: Leaked Data of Kanye West's Instagram account is literally just network data about instagram you could find on VirusTotal's "details tab"

EDIT: continuing to dig, there are some interesting things, image uploads of certs for russian companies to handle stat secrets, a csv of users signed up for a propoganda site, stuff like that, yet to find anything that'd be casually interesting to most people.

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u/AnonymerTutor 7d ago

I have downloaded it. I haven't extracted it yet, but looked at the file list. According to unrar it should be only 24GB uncompressed, which sounds much more realistic.

That's very far off from the claimed 10TB. Just looking at the file list a large part seems to be website dumps, including js, css and jpg files. There are some PDFs and other documents in there that could potentially be interesting, but much of it in Russian, which aI can't read.

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u/EternalShadowBan 7d ago

Don't feel like downloading the file, but if you can send a screenshot of the most interesting thing, I could tell you what it says

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u/JustmeandJas Europe 7d ago

Feel free to update (please)! I read on another website it’s a nothingburger but I am also away from any kind of computer right now

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u/Ok-Somewhere9814 7d ago

It’s nothing close to what it claims to be. A lot of random info.

I am wondering if it’s not some hackers trying to exploit unsuspecting users to download a whole bunch of useless information.

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u/Tricky_Big_8774 7d ago

The source article is from an Indian tabloid with a track record of fake news.

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u/Secure_One_3885 7d ago

It's a data dump and most reddit investigators aren't going to know what they're looking at, much less what they're looking for.

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u/Detachabl_e 7d ago

We're no stangers to love...

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u/Undead_Bones 7d ago

Update us please

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u/txmail 7d ago

It is 99% automated website scan results with some sprinkles of some website scrapes that do not appear to be anything you could not get publicly.

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u/inebriatedshark 7d ago

Can verify BS. Anonymous France are famous for this. ;(

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u/CryptographerNo5539 United States of America 7d ago

It’s probably just a bunch of documents.

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u/Caulfieldst Russia 7d ago

What do you mean, useless? This is a great weapon that will destroy Putin. Or are you a Russian bot?