The tech behind the biggest journalism leak in history
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An anonymous hard drive contains 2.6 terabytes and 11.5 million files from law firm Mossack Fonseca; a coordinated network uses secure sharing, search and database tooling to parse invoices, incorporation records and emails; a distributed workflow enrolls 370 journalists in 80 countries to tag, link and verify entities; simultaneous April 3 publication triggers resignations, police raids and global tax investigations, proving the tooling and collaborative process actually scale and produce real-world outcomes.
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