Centurions
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I think they claim not and that he only gave them only some of the info, this is from what Football Leaks claims to be around 70 million documents and more than 3.4 terabytes of information which is a hell of a lot of hacking.Sorry for my ignorance, and it may already have been mentioned in this 850+ thread (There is no way I'm trawling back through all this), but if Der Spiegel gave any money or incentive for Pinto to give them this data, surely this would be at a minimum, handling stolen goods. They are basically supporting illegal activity.
If Pinto gave it over free of charge, under the guise of whistle blower, I suppose this would negate my above comment mind.
In fact I found this (again):
He wanted the stories hidden in the material to be told – entire stories and not just fragments. So he handed his data over to Spiegel: eight portable hard drives containing 18.6 million documents, including original contracts complete with secret subsidiary agreements, emails, Word files, Excel charts and photos. The data reaches into 2016 and takes up a total of 1.9 terabytes of memory. That is roughly the equivalent of 500,000 Bibles.
https://theblacksea.eu/stories/football-leaks/football-leaks-the-story-behind-the-data/