Guccifer 2.0‘s latest release of DNC documents is generally described as:
In total, the latest dump contains more than 600 megabytes of documents. It is the first Guccifer 2.0 release to not come from the hacker’s WordPress account. Instead, it was given out via a link to the small group of security experts attending the London conference. Guccifer 2.0 drops more DNC docs by Cory Bennett.
The “600 megabytes of documents” is an attention grabber, but how much of that 600 megabytes is useful and/or interesting?
The answer turns out to be, not a lot.
Here’s an overview of the directories and files:
/CIR
Financial investment data.
/CNBC
Financial investment data.
/DNC
Redistricting documents.
/DNCBSUser
One file with fields of VANDatabaseCode StateID VanID cons_id?
/documentation
A large amount of documentation for “IQ8,” apparently address cleaning software. Possibly useful if you want to know address cleaning rules from eight years ago.
/DonorAnalysis
Sound promising but is summary data based on media markets.
/early
Early voting analysis.
/eday
Typical election voting analysis, from 2002 to 2008.
/FEC
Duplicates to FEC filings. Checking the .csv file, data from 2008. BTW, you can find this date (2008) and later data of the same type at: http://fec.gov.
/finance
More duplicates to FEC filings. 11-26-08 NFC Members Raised.xlsx (no credit cards) – Dated but 453 names with contacts, amounts raised, etc.
/HolidayCards
Holiday card addresses, these are typical:
holiday_list_noproblems.txt
holidaycards.mdb
morethanonename.xls
/jpegs
Two jpegs were included in the dump.
/marketing
Lists of donors.
DNC union_05-09.txt
DNCunion0610.txt
GDSA11A.CSV
November VF EOC – MEYER.txt
dem0702a[1].zip
dem977.txt
dem978.txt
dem979.txt
dem980.txt
dem981.txt
dem982.txt
dem9A3_NGP.txt
dem9A6_NGP.txt
dnc_harris_eoc_nov09_canvass.zip – password protected
dsg.txt
gsi.txt
harris.txt
marketing_phones.txt
ofa_actives_non-donor.csv
tm_files.txt
/May-FEC
Grepping looks like May, 2009 data for the FEC.
/newmedia
More donor lists.
20090715_new_synetech_emails.csv
emails_w_contactinfo.txt
ofa_email_export.zip
/pdfs
IT hosting proposals.
/Reports for Kaine
Various technology memos
/security
IT security reports
/stuffformike/WH/
Contacts not necessarily in FEC records
Contact List-Complete List.xlsx – Contact list with emails and phone numbers (no credit cards)
WH Staff 2010.xlsx – Names but no contact details
The data is eight (8) years old. Do you have the same phone number you did eight (8) years ago?
Guccifer 2.0 makes no claim on their blog for ownership of this leak.
A “hack” that results in eight year old data, most of which is more accessible at http://fec.gov?
No, this looks more like a discarded hard drive that was harvested and falsely labeled as a “hack” of the DNC.
Unless Guccifer 2.0 says otherwise on their blog, you have better things to do with your time.
PS: You don’t need old hard drives to discover pay-to-play purchases of public appointments. Check back tomorrow for: How-To Discover Pay-to-Play Appointment Pricing.