OSINT Challenge 4 - Futbol

Prompt

In 2016 and 2018, a set of 70 million documents totalling 3.4 terabytes of data were leaked detailing private details of the culture of European football. To date, there are still findings that occur as journalists go through these documents. Explore and find information about these leaks.

Answers

Q1 (10 pts) - What organization received the files and led the effort to process the PDFs and images?
Der Spiegel

Q2 (10 pts) - One of the organizations that responded to the leaks was the Romanian Centre of Investigative Journalism (RCIJ). What metadata extraction tool was used on the dataset?
Apache Tika

Q3 (10 pts) - What (now outdated) tool came about as a result of the RCIJ’s efforts? It includes the search interface, 2FA, document procession, and indexing.
Hoover

Q4 (15 pts) - What is the reddit account used by 2 journalists at the organization referred to in Question 1?
derwinterbach

Q5 (15 pts) - Which football player moved 12 million euros to a Swiss account owned by a British Virgin Islands company?
José Mourinho

Q6 (15 pts) - According to the leaks, which player allegedly bypassed anti-doping protocols twice?
Sergio Ramos

Q7 (15 pts) - In Memphis Depay’s contract, on page 26, what is the topic in section 13?
Player Warranties

Steps I Took

Found Q1 on this website https://theblacksea.eu/investigations/football-leaks-2018/what-football-leaks/

Found Q2 on this website https://eic.network/blog/how-to-investigate-football-leaks

Q3 — Hoover was listed on the same website.

https://eic.network/blog/how-to-investigate-football-leaks

For Q4, I found the Reddit post by the journalists here: https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/9wgb8v/we_work_for_der_spiegel_and_broke_dozens_of/

Q5

https://www.hellomonaco.com/news/sport/ronaldo-falcao-and-mourinho-are-implicated-in-a-massive-tax-evasion-scheme-according-to-football-leaks/

Q6

https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/37566679/real-madrid-sergio-ramos-face-action-football-leaks-doping-claims-sources

Q7 — I found the PDF of the document here: https://www.docdroid.net/TlugkRa/manchester-united-memphis-depay-contract-pdf