Piercing the veil: a massive leak of records from British offshore services provider
About #29Leaks:
The project’s name reflects the address of offshore services provider Formations House, located at 29 Harley Street, an upscale address in central London.
The data comes from a breach at Formations House. The anti-secrecy group Distributed Denial of Secrets obtained the records and offered investigative journalists a chance to dig through.
The investigative news site Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) created a search engine to allow the Miami Herald, the McClatchy Washington Bureau and other collaborating news organizations globally to view the data, which included more than 880,000 emails.
#29Leaks participants shared information but largely worked independently, pairing in smaller collaborative teams based on story interest.
Twenty-one news organizations were involved in this smaller subset collaboration, and partners began publishing at midnight GMT on Dec. 4, 2019.
This story was originally published December 4, 2019 at 12:00 AM with the headline "Piercing the veil: a massive leak of records from British offshore services provider."
