Worrying fall out from Gun trader leak

[Oxon Stuart]

Apparently Google has removed the file from Google Drive, but with so many copies out there now it’s likely it’ll reappear elsewhere sooner rather than later. I suspect the authorities will be playing whack-a-mole with that one for a while to come.

I understand the matter has been referred to the National Crime Agency for investigation.

 

[mudman]

Related to this if you have visited the webpage you may see that it is primarily set up to leak hacked documents from various hunts (hunting with hounds) up and down the country. Some info is just run of the mill but they have also released the personal details including addresses of hundreds of various hunt members, supporters and landowners. Some of the leaked data has also been damaging / embarrassing for certain hunts and associated organisations.

this should be a warning to all those syndicates and clubs that they need to keep all their data as secure as possible. It will not be long before a deer stalking syndicate or a game shoot has all its private information plastered all over this hunting leaks site.

 

[HDShark]

Honestly can't believe the cyber crime folk have been so slow to act on this. You'd think at the very least, they should have put a DNS block on the site, as they do with other criminal URLs. Somebody illegally downloading a film, must be more important than the risk of firearms being stolen

The file has been re-uploaded to a file hosting service in Switzerland...

 

[Morkai]

Now the papers are on it.

Names and addresses of 110,000 gun owners leaked online by activists

The names, home addresses and contact details of 111,295 people who own firearms in the UK were taken from online selling platform Guntrader and leaked online by animal rights activists.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[tozzybum]

Unfortunately they've got it on Google earth and the sun has kindly told the whole country

 

[Klenchblaize]

Has anybody contacted their FLO with this Hunting leaks site?

Call me simple but I would have thought it is they (The Home Office) who should be contacting the compromised Licence holders with a view to providing guidance and, in so far as possible, assurance they are doing all they can to limit the damage.

As I say though you may call me simple.

K

 

[Alantoo]

I have just received an email from Google...only a month or two after the event...

Hello,

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We had a look at these URLs:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1csHD9zVovIkHUZjmHwH8NKKAHkK2xhO5/view

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[long_range_rob]

I have just received an email from Google...only a month or two after the event...

Hello,

Thanks for reaching out to us.

We had a look at these URLs:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1csHD9zVovIkHUZjmHwH8NKKAHkK2xhO5/view

This content violates our policies, so we're removing it from our services. Thanks for letting us know about this content.

Information in our search results comes from third-party, publicly available webpages. If the information is removed from the third-party webpage, our cache will update itself to show the page's new content.

If our search pages are showing the old version of a webpage

You can use this tool to request a cache removal. You can also learn how to remove out-of-date content from our search results on our Help Center.

If the information is still on the webpage



Learn how to contact a site's webmaster and request a change on our Help Center. If the information is removed from the third-party webpage, our cache will update itself to show the page's new content.

Regards,
The Google Team

Yep, I got the same email. Got to love google. All the lithe athletic response of a recently run over badger.

 

[Mike L]

Same email received today.