Apr 22, 2016

Panama Papers – How Hackers Breached the Mossack Fonseca Firm

Introduction

The Panama Papers are a huge trove of high confidential documents stolen from the computer systems of the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca that was leaked online during recently.
It is considered the largest data leaks ever, the entire archive contains more than 11.5 Million files including 2.6 Terabytes of data related the activities of offshore shell companies used by the most powerful people around the world, including 72 current and former heads of state.
Figure 1 – Data Leaked (Source: Süddeutsche Zeitung)
To better scale the dimension of the data leaks, let’s compare the dimension of the stolen data to the size of archives disclosed after other