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Extract from article by Jamie Condliffe
An international team of journalists has obtained what it’s referring to as the “biggest leak in history”: A 2.6-terabyte stash of data about offshore savings and tax havens from Panama-based legal firm Mossack Fonseca.
It’s claimed that 370 reporters from 100 different media organizations have worked on the project—being referred to as the Panama Papers—over the last year, which has now been published with some fanfare by The Guardian and German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung. The 2.6 terabytes of data are made up of over 11.5 million files, which makes it a far bigger leak than the diplomatic cables uncovered by WikiLeaks in 2010 or the stash of NSA documents released by Edward Snowden in 2013. It’s not yet clear how the documents were made available to the journalists.
Read the complete article at 2.6TB Data Leak Reveals Corruption Amongst World Leaders