PM’s leaked call recordings sold for 18 Bitcoins on Dark Web
Information about sensitive government business and private conversations, worth 8GB of data of up to 100 hours, between the prime minister and members of his administration has apparently been leaked and put up for sale on the dark.
Priced at 18 Bitcoins, a digital currency, which at its Sunday afternoon trading rate translated into over $3.4 million, would be one of the biggest data breaches in Pakistan’s history.
Earlier, reports were doing rounds on the internet where, the alleged audio leak of Shahbaz Sharif with a government official discussing how to provide relief to Maryam Nawaz’s son-in-law Raheel to import grid from India (especially when the import is banned) and also related to some of his real estate projects has gone viral on social media.
According to an analysis by an open-source intelligence (OSINT) account, the seller has no prior history on the forum. “It looks like he created this account just to post about these leaks,” OSINT Insider tweeted, “It’s important to understand that these are not leaked audio calls. These are recorded conversations in PM Office. More than the content of audios, it is important to know how these convos got recorded? if these audios are legit, this is massive security lapse..”
If someone was able to bug the PM office, you've no idea how much of "data" has been leaked.
I don't vouch for the authenticity of these audios, unless these is a forensic analysis, but if these are legit leaks, the implications are huge.
— OSINT Insider (@OSINT_Insider) September 24, 2022
PM’s leaked call recordings sold for 18 Bitcoins on Dark Web
Another Twitter user wrote: “A security breach in the highest office of Pakistan where most sensitive discussions take place. The world is going to laugh on us.”
“This is what happens when the whole state apparatus & agencies are busy in harassing a political party’s supporters instead of doing their jobs”, user added.
I've two theories about it:
1) Someone was recording these conversations but he got hacked and data was leaked.
2) These audios weren't not really meant to be sold online, but to give the message that 'we have audios'.
— OSINT Insider (@OSINT_Insider) September 24, 2022
