Panama Papers - 2.6TB leak on offshore tax havens

Re:Panama Papers - 2.6TB leak on offshore tax havens by chvid on Sunday April 03, 2016 @10:45PM (#11419084)

I wonder who did the leak? I wonder if the law firm knows who did it and where he is now?

My guess is some sys admin presumely at some central office (as this spans the whole company); I mean 2.6TB data - not so easy for an average lawyer to download to his laptop.

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Re:Panama Papers - 2.6TB leak on offshore tax havens by dluan on Sunday April 03, 2016 @11:29PM (#11419240)

My guess is more than one IT person is not going to show up to work tomorrow.

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Re:Panama Papers - 2.6TB leak on offshore tax havens by Nishioka on Sunday April 03, 2016 @10:52PM (#11419117)

Good call and probably European given the choice of paper leaked too.

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Re:Panama Papers - 2.6TB leak on offshore tax havens by chvid on Monday April 04, 2016 @03:16AM (#11419978)

It is Germany's largest newspaper.

The data probably would have been handed over in person.

My guess is he is German speaking; maybe from Switzerland or Liechtenstein.

But I wonder about doing something like this: He is not exactly protected, what he has done is illegal (at least to some extent - whistleblower laws etc.), he stands to make no personal gains.

One thing is being a high profile whistleblower like Snowden or Assange. But this guy? Where does he end up?

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