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Leaked Police Files Offer Clues on How Cops Use Data Firms
The San Bernardino Police Department is among dozens to have used ODIN Intelligence’s platform, which was hacked this month.
Credit: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg
ODIN Intelligence markets software to law enforcement agencies, but its operations are opaque. Its official address is a mailbox inside a UPS store in Utah. LinkedIn lists about a dozen employees, and ODIN's website contains only one sentence: "We help communities link homeless with resources; help protect citizens from child predators, and assist in locating missing persons."
Last week, the company published a notice saying that a hacking group claimed to have broken into its networks and stole gigabytes of data. About the same time, hackers provided a trove of documents — purportedly from ODIN Intelligence — to the Distributed Denial of Secrets, a pro-transparency group.
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