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Drupal + WordPress = Panama Papers Hack?

Posted on April 12, 2016 By Davey Winder

Could the combination of an old version of Drupal and a vulnerable WordPress plugin be behind the Panama Papers leak?

As politicians and celebrities come under immense public scrutiny following the Panama Papers hack, the clever money seems to be on the Mossack Fonseca leak being caused by an external hacker. With 11 million documents, including 4.8 million emails, among the 2.6TB of data exfiltrated from the Panamanian law firm, it’s hardly surprising that claims of ‘nation state hackers’ are being made. The truth could be a lot less complicated…

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