Announcement: End-of-year fundraising push

It's Giving Tuesday, and we have a new fundraiser up. Please consider backing the next year of DDoSecrets.

DDoSecrets is now four years old.

Distributed Denial of Secrets is the single most trusted leak organization on the planet and is constantly publishing new submissions from whistleblowers, activist groups and others, to bring truth to light. This hard work involves thousands of hours of human labor. DDoSecrets has published over 250 datasets from more than 50 countries, adding up to nearly 100 terabytes. Our library reveals the inner workings of oligarchs’ finances, fascist organizations, shell companies, tax havens and banks as well as law enforcement, military, and political groups from all over the world.

Where does your support go?

While DDoSecrets' expenses have gone up, we remain an efficient, barebones operation. We are sometimes called a successor to WikiLeaks but for comparison, in 2010 WikiLeaks needed "$10,000 to 15,000 a month to maintain its Web presence," $200,000 a year to cover its operating expenses, and more than half a million dollars to pay a small staff. With a fraction of that budget, DDoSecrets makes more than 10,000 times the amount of data available.

"Of all the transparency organizations, hackers, whistleblowers, and leakers that have emerged in recent years, ­­DDoSecrets stands apart, not just for its collaborative discipline, technical sophistication, and a wide network of sources, but also for its lack of ego and aggressive commitment to transparency." — The New Republic

This work comes with significant risk

After we published BlueLeaks, a cache of files from over 200 U.S. law enforcement agencies and intelligence fusion centers, German authorities seized the server for DDoSecrets’ search system at the request of the FBI. The German prosecutor acted despite having no official paperwork and knowing DDoSecrets was a journalist group. At the same time, many of our accounts were banned or suspended from social media. (To this day, you can’t Tweet any DDoSecrets web addresses, except the new one 😼.)

We never bowed to pressure or stopped publishing. We debunked the U.S. Department of Homeland Security labeling us “criminal hackers.” Despite the censorship, our library continues to impact public debate. The Parler videos we published were used as evidence during the second impeachment trial of President Donald Trump.

Your contributions help us fight

DDoSecrets can’t do this work alone. We’ve partnered with groups like Harvard University’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science, European Investigative Collaborations, the Henri-Nannen-Journalistenschule journalism school, and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project. During the Russo-Ukrainian War, we became known as one of the best public repositories for Russian files allowing the public an unheard of behind-the-scenes of Russian censorship and propaganda as well as the inner workings of some of its now sanctioned industries.

Although some of our data is available for search in a custom search engine, we want to rebuild the Hunter Memorial Library to restore public access to the world’s largest searchable archive of secrets. Rebuilding the Hunter Memorial Library is an essential project to provide a safe, stable, and accessible search platform for the public, researchers, and journalists to dig deep into our data.

DDoSecrets has always been a global project. Accessibility for all languages in the archive has never been more important. We’ve completed the first translation of our website into Russian, and we want to add more languages. Funds from this new fundraiser will also go towards the translation of our index, so we can reach new audiences.

As always, thanks for reading. We are looking forward to sharing more new datasets with you all, soon.