Millions of documents leaked from a corporate services firm.
The information about the secret companies was leaked from Formations House.
The leaked data first went to the transparency group Distributed Denial of Secrets. DDoSecrets, as it’s called, then made the data available to the public at its website.
The data covers a ten-year period from 2008 to 2018.
Source: https://fcpablog.com/2020/01/13/london-new-data-leak-exposes-owners-of-400000-anonymous-companies/
TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/formations-house-in-uk
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