The mass publication of sensitive data on the Internet raises many questions. Who is behind the cyber attack? Who is affected? And what is the next step in the investigation?
collapse What do we know about the perpetrators?
The data was distributed via a Twitter Account. The first Tweet was discontinued in June 2017. It is a photo: A young man with sunglasses and a T-Shirt with an unknown Logo stretches, smiling two thumbs up.
The first data on the Account on 19. July 2017 published, at the time, to Jan böhmermann. Then a longer gap between August 2017 and August 2018, was followed by occasional further information. Targeted data were published in December 2018 as a kind of advent calendar.
