# When hackers become sources: Inside the new craft of reporting on hacked data

- Source: Nieman Lab
- Published: 2026-10-20T15:39:06+00:00
- Category: Tech
- Original: https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/when-hackers-become-sources-inside-the-new-craft-of-reporting-on-hacked-data/
- Canonical: https://groundlevelnews.com/story/when-hackers-become-sources-inside-the-new-craft-of-reporting-on-hacke-c2517e/

Some consequential reporting of recent years has emerged thanks to what is normally defined as a “hack-and-leak,” a specific kind of cyberattack that results in the release of the information obtained by hackers. When Anonymous and allied collectives breached corporations and state agencies during the hacktivist wave of the 2010s, for instance, they turned stolen...

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