gizmodo | If you visit the WikiLeaks DNC emails
website, you can browse the emails using a simple boolean search.
Typing a word like “contribution” will actually turn up hundreds of
results. The emails include unencrypted, plain-text listings of donor
emails addresses, home addresses, phone numbers, social security
numbers, passport numbers, and credit card information. WikiLeaks
proudly announced the data dump in a single tweet.
The new leak is part of the organization’s ongoing Hillary Leaks
series, which launched in March as a searchable archive of more than
30,000 emails and attachments sent to and from Clinton’s private email
server, while she was Secretary of State. The original email dump included documents from June 2010 to August 2014. The new release includes emails from January 2015 to May 2016.
This isn’t the first time WikiLeaks has recklessly published personal
information of innocent civilians, either. Human rights groups such as
Amnesty International and Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission
have previously requested that WikiLeaks remove names of Afghan
civilians in 77,000 classified military documents
published online. The civilians were (ironically) collateral damage in
the same leak that spurred the “Collateral Murder” video obtained by
Wikileaks.
Exactly why Wikileaks decided not to redact the private
information of unsuspecting Americans remains unclear. We’ve reached out
for comment and will update as soon as we hear back.
