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by empath75 724 days ago
I don't think the federal reserve has that many deep dark secrets. The main risk is going to be stuff like knowing that a bank is in trouble before it's public knowledge.
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I suspect the purpose of announcing it is so that it enters the news cycle before a Presidential debate. The payload itself may never materialize.

Trust in the Federal Reserve, and ignorance of its function, can be a strong partisan issue without waiting for a payload.

The Fed runs several payment systems so in theory all the transfers sent through there could be a part of this leak.
I'd be _extremely_ surprised if they managed to pop the payment systems.
If previous releases are anything to go by, it’ll be a bunch of backups and databases from enterprise HR and IT software that was running on poorly secured Windows servers, though I don’t know how it adds up to 33TB. Probably undeduplicated backup images or something.

The dump from their Boeing hack was excruciatingly boring.