Now that one alleged audio leak is out, here is my OSINT report about its origin and what can be its implications.
Let's go back to 20th August.
A user "indishell" posted on a hacking forum that he has access to the leaked data of Pakistan PM Office.
This user has no prior history on this hacking forum. It looks like he created this account just to post about these leaks.
Two threads, 16 posts - all about this alleged data leak in the PM office.
3- He claimed that he has access to "important & complete conversations of Prime Minister of Pakistan with all high profile people including those who are influential and not in power."
When asked which PM, he said "present and ex PM".
User asked people to bid in order to get access to this leak - with minimum bid being 18 0BTC. (around $345000)
He also said that highest bidder will get the samples audios of this leak before making the payment.
In the comments, a user suggested that he may be scammer and advised othera to be careful.
In response to it, 'hacker' shared links to the 3 alleged leaked audio samples of the PM office probably to prove that he is not a scammer.
These 3 audio leaks are allegedly the PM House conversations between:
1) PM & a govt official (that's viral now)
2) An audio leak of cabinet meeting.
3) PM and a woman politician audio
It's important to understand that these are not leaked audio calls. These are recorded conversations in PM Office.
More than the content of audios, it is important to know how these convos got recorded? if these audios are legit, this is massive security lapse..
If someone was able to bug the PM office, you've no idea how much of "data" has been leaked.
I don't vouch for the authenticity of these audios, unless these is a forensic analysis, but if these are legit leaks, the implications are huge.
I've two theories about it:
1) Someone was recording these conversations but he got hacked and data was leaked.
2) These audios weren't not really meant to be sold online, but to give the message that 'we have audios'.
If you've go though these audios, you may have noted that mic seems to be in a very close proximity to the PM.
Who has such close access to PM? someone in his team? these are the questions that matter most right now. Will we get answers? highly unlikely.
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📌: Unlike the popular opinion, this twitter account "Lucy" is not the origin of this data leak.
The data was leaked on 20th August on a hacking forum, whereas this user shared it on 4th September.
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