A group of hackers this week leaked documents from the Texas-based private company Lexipol, which creates training manuals and policy guidelines for first responders.
The nonprofit data leak hosting group Distributed Denial of Secrets, or DDoSecrets, received approximately 8,543 files from a group that calls itself "the puppygirl hacker polycule," including manuals on policy, training, and procedures for police departments, fire departments, and narcotics units. It also includes customer records including private information such as addresses and hashed passwords.
An unidentified member of the hacking group told the Daily Dot in a statement that there aren't "enough hacks against the police" when asked why it went after Lexipol.
"So we took matters into our own paws," the hacker said.
Lexipol had not replied to a request for comment as of Tuesday afternoon.
DDoSecrets, in its article on the leak, noted that "Lexipol retains copyright over all manuals which it creates despite the public nature of its work," adding, "There is little transparency on how decisions are made to draft their policies, which have an oversized influence on policing in the United States."
The Texas Law Review referred to Lexipol as "a dominant force in police policymaking across the country" that "offers a valuable service, particularly for smaller law enforcement agencies that are without the resources to draft and update policies on their own."
The nonprofit also notes that the company has come under fire over its pushback against police reform efforts and that some of its policies have been challenged in courts as contributing to racial profiling.
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