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Podcast: The Panama Papers

June 6, 2016

Our latest Digital Detectives podcast is now up. We had the pleasure of interviewing Nuix Chief Technology Officer Stephen Stewart about the Panama Papers, certainly the world's largest law firm breach. Panama law firm Mossack Fonseca had 2.6 terabytes of information taken from it by an anonymous party, who then gave that information to the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ). The leaked data contained 11.5 million items that consisted of roughly 5 million e-mails, 3 million database records, 2 million PDF files, and 1 million images. In an attempt to understand and further investigate the received data, SZ then contacted the International Consortium of Investigative Reporters (ICIJ).

Stephen talks about what the ICIJ is (basically an international network that includes 165 investigative journalists from over 65 countries) and how Nuix's software was utilized to aid in the data analysis. We discussed the authorities' later raid on the law firm's office and what evidence the digital forensics experts and financial analysts might have been looking for. This breach certainly captured the world's attention and revelations continue to surface.

There are a lot of lessons here for law firm security – this firm sure didn't do things right.

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