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by mmastrac 432 days ago
From a quick scan of the file listing of the 18GB compressed folder linked for download elsewhere, looks like it's a collection of completely random data hacked over a number of years from various accounts that may or may not be connected with Russia (Guy Ritchie? Kanye West? Why?).

Also, why a PNG?

  2022-12-02 10:25:11 ....A        10530        10092  Leaked Data of corrupt officials/Part 1/Leaked Data of Kanye West's Instagram account/IP, Port, Hostname.png
  2022-12-02 10:26:08 ....A        39852        37635  Leaked Data of corrupt officials/Part 1/Leaked Data of Kanye West's Instagram account/SSL info.png
  2022-12-02 10:27:01 ....A       124662       114729  Leaked Data of corrupt officials/Part 1/Leaked Data of Kanye West's Instagram account/Vulnerabilities.png
Some bank data seems to be exposed here (internal control panels), but in other cases it's just a dump of public website HTML?

10TB seems just plain wrong (didn't bother downloading the whole thing, though).

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> Vulnerabilities.png

Clever. Instagram is an image hosting platform. At the firewall, guards watching the network traffic wouldn't notice png encrypted screenshots of cracked IP addresses being exfiltrated, drifting in plain sight in the usual pixel streams.

I didn't bother looking at the files, but I would wager that it's not as clever as you suggested here. If there's gold in this leak, I'd suggest it's buried in an Everest of crap.
Sorry, I tried humor.
Oops, totally whooshed over my head.