law firm based in Panama, Mossack Fonseca, has revealed the offshore
holdings of 140 politicians, public officials, and athletes around the
world.
The leaks — a collaborative effort by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) — were obtained by the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, and are
comprised of over 11 million records dating back 40 years. They amount
to approximately 3 terabytes of data, including corporate records,
financial filings, emails, and more. It is roughly 100 times larger than the 1.7 GB of data dumped in 2010 by Wikileaks.