Hacker News Reader

Comment by degif | Hacker News Reader

The full database in CSV format (44.8GB) is downloadable via torrent https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/pages/database

Correct me if I am wrong but the way I understand it, what has been made public is a very small part of the data (which 2.6TB),Law enforcement would need access to all the data to investigate leads and prosecute offenders. ICIJ is refusing to give them access.

Where do you get the 44.8GB number from? I see a 37.5MB zip file available for direct download or via BitTorrent.

The torrent does not appear to be working properly (at least for me, I see no seeds and one tracker only that doesn't respond). But The direct download works.

I would bet 45GB is the full raw text of all the docs, and that's not what this is.

It's not a huge file but there's definitely a lot of data there.

This is just a database of the Entities (319,422), Addresses (151,128), Intermediaries (26,643) and Officers (345,646).

They also include an "edges" file to indicate relationships.

It's weird there are no seeds for you. I've been seeing it for ~20 hours or so without issue.

This is the metadata for it, if that helps:

Name: offshoreleaks_data-csv.zip File: torrents/offshoreleaks_data-csv.zip.6ffb15f06e409a58.torrent

GENERAL

  Name: offshoreleaks_data-csv.zip
  Hash: 6ffb15f06e409a58ab7d2a710784e4ef974da782
  Created by: 
  Created on: Unknown
  Piece Count: 144
  Piece Size: 256.0 KiB
  Total Size: 37.53 MB
  Privacy: Public torrent

TRACKERS

  Tier #1
  http://tracker.amazonaws.com:6969/announce

FILES

  offshoreleaks_data-csv.zip (37.53 MB)

Reply on news.ycombinator.com