A user on the online forum 4chan has leaked a massive 270GB of data purportedly belonging to The New York Times. This leak includes what is claimed to be the source code for the newspaper’s digital operations.

  • merthyr1831@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    270GB feels insane for the source code of a single organisation. Is there media assets or backups in there too?

    EDIT: yep, multiple subsidiaries and slack Comms which could inflate it by a lot. we post a whole lot of uncompressed shit on our slack