#amusing tho

-shooting star falling to the earth and surprise it is a person a la stardust (stars druid or twilight cleric or maybe both) 

On April 19, a slew of tens of thousands of wide-ranging, private emails between Chicago public officials was quietly published online.

The group behind the dump — Distributed Denial of Secrets — says it didn’t hack the emails, but after obtaining them around February, spent more than a month sifting through them, decoding the emails and deciding which ones to publish broadly.

“We [initially] found, you know, a lot of really corporate data … about mergers and acquisitions,” said activist Freddy Martinez, one the group’s advisors who’s from Chicago. ”And we sort of put it to the side. And then … looking a bit deeper, we found all of the city of Chicago’s emails … we sort of knew that there was a lot of really important information in there.”

So the group published a database that they say contains 60,000 documents of emails among top officials within Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration. The emails appear to touch on innumerable topics, from conversations about when to ignore a reporter’s phone calls, extensive emails on the city’s COVID-19 planning, to a secretive Chicago Police Department drone surveillance program.

The ransomware group Clop took credit for the hack, and published the data behind the emails according to the Chicago Sun-Times. That’s after city officials say the group tried to get a ransom payment to prevent the dump. The emails come from the Jones Day law firm, which the city had hired to conduct an internal investigation into its handling of a high-profile botched police raid.