Hostleaks

An international non-profit whistleblower and reporting organisation. Founded and run by Dr Roan Fields.

Dr Roan Fields
The founder of HostLeaks, Roan Fields was a former journalist from Tiperyn, with experience as a hacktivist, he fled Tiperyn to Brigantica in 1999, after the Tiperyn government enacted a brief crackdown on a hacktivist group he had ties with. While in Brigantica, he founded HostLeaks in 2002, and began focusing on disclosing classified Concordant data, and protecting hacktivists and whistleblowers. He was arrested in Brigantica, in connection to Brigantic government secrets that had been released on HostLeaks, and served 4 years of a 25 year sentence, before it was commuted to time served in 2008. He then relocated to SiWallqanqa, at the invitation of Princess Nina, who had been attending university in Brigantica and had become close to several associates of Mr Fields. Mr Fields qualified for political asylum and has been living in his personal secure compound since then. His connections to the Royal Household of SiWallqanqa, have enabled him to secure several dozen of politcal asylum permissions for various whistleblowers he has been in contact with.

Maike Bakker
A Signals Intelligence Analyst in the Tiperyn Realm Defence Force, she escaped to Legantus in the League of Free Nations, but later relocted to SiWallqanqa at the urging of the Legantian government to not further inflame tensions between the Concordant and the League. She has resided in Thep'tura in SiWallqanqa since 2013 and has written several books and appeared several times on SiWallqanqan talk shows commenting on the activites of the North-South Concordant.

Adrian Diamandis
Formerly a junior employee in the IT department of a Thesparossian defence contractor, he first contacted Hostleaks in 2007, releasing design schematics for various armoured vehicles built by the company. In 2010, he was reprimanded for posting pictures of his office on the internet, and was investigated for any further security breaches, although nothing was found. He continued to sporadically leak classified information to Hostleaks, until in 2011 when he was alerted by a co-worker that outside investigators had been hired to find the source of the leaks. Feeling the net closing around him, he contacted his contact at Hostleaks, Miryam Lassiter, who arranged plane tickets for him to Gardarike. 2 hours after his arrival in Gardarike, an arrest warrant for him was released carrying the potential for the death penalty. Following an attempt on his life by a Thesparossian citizen holidaying in Gardarike at his hotel, Mr Diamandis was moved first to Kironia, then Yarova, before arriving in Port Hope, SiWallqanqa as a political asylum seeker, under a witness protection program.

The Oxbow Circle
A collaborative efforts of several whistleblowers from Agrana y Griegro, Veikaia and Tiperyn. All who were involved in the shady going's on of the North-South Defence Consortium or unified surveillance intelligence groups. They alleged evidence of corruption and preferential treatment by the Consortium in favour of certain contractors. Most of the group had been providing information to Hostleaks seperately since 2008, but they were advised to work together by Hostleaks handler James Addams. They were discovered in 2011 after probing by the intelligence services of the North-South Concordant following the previous two un-connected major leaks. Most were arrested and faced imprisonment or death sentences, however two managed to escape to the SiWallqanqan embassy in Agrana y Griegro, as they had been on their lunch break when the arrest warrants were issued, and were warned via text message by their fellow conspirator. James Addams dissappeared a few months later and remains a missing person.

February 2017 Kironian Data Leaks
In January 2017, 2nd Lieutenant Mildred Östa contacted a Hostleaks handler via an instant messaging service, and revealed that she had a large amount of classified data she wished to leak, all in all, over 20,000 classified documents from the Kironian government. Ms Östa was an employee in the Kironian Domestic Intelligence service, working as an analyst, and prior to that worked with the Internal Affairs department as a system analyst. In February, the 20,000 documents were released to the public on Hostleaks. In April of 2017 her identity was discovered by Internal Affairs investigators and she narrowly avoided being arrested at her office in Dobele, before making her way to the SiWallqanqan embassy in Hedestad with the help of her girlfriend, hiding under a blanket in the back seat of her girlfriend's mothers car. She and her girlfriend have remained in the SiWallqanqan embassy at Hedestad since, which has since been enlarged with a self-contained apartment for their use. The SiWallqanqan government and Hostleaks have been in negotiations with the Kironian government to secure their deportation to SiWallqanqa.

The 20,000 leaked documents detailed:
 * Illegal business practices of Kironian companies
 * Connections between organised crime and the government and military
 * Government and Military corruption
 * Kironian hacking of: Gardarike, Thuyiquakliq, Yarova and other League of Free Nations members
 * Unethical Kironian domestic hacking and surveillance
 * Details regarding a suite of Kironian malicious hacking tools
 * Details of illegal activities of the Kironian military, mainly during peacekeeping operations in the SiWallqanqan Civil War, including the Compound Q9 video
 * Details regardin the operation of Kironian blacksites, and evidence of willful ignorance of Concordant operated black sites in Kironia
 * Information regarding illegal and unethical activities of the Northern Coregnancy, specifically falsified fisheries reports detailing cover-ups of pollution, minor oil spills and chemical dumps, and overfishing in the Bolungar Gulf.

The Compound Q9 Video
The Compound Q9 video, was a video file leaked by Ms Östa, half an hour in length, spliced together footage from a Kironian surveillance drone of Kironian soldiers breaching a compound and killing indiscriminately, capturing several injured prisoners. The second half of the footage is taken from a hand-held camera, showing the torture and interrogation of two SiWi communist soldiers, and ends with the execution by gunshot of one for failing to answer.

Connections to the SiWallqanqan Royal Household
Dr Fields is a friend of Princess Nina, of the SiWallqanqan Royal Family, so he has been able to utilize her influence and public iconography for freedom and opposition to corruption and authoritarianism, to secure dozens of political asylum allowances for various whistleblowers,