The Shadow Brokers GitHub

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Creation

The GitHub account was created on 2016-08-06 under the username theshadowbrokers.

Appearance

The GitHub account has no customization, the profile picture is the basic one.

Security

The account is registered with the email userll6gcwaknz@tutanota.com.

Changes

The account created immediately starts saving changes:

• 1 contribution on 2016-08-06
  • Initial commit; Creation of the README.md file in the EQGRP-AUCTION repository via commit e89a511
• 3 contributions on 2016-08-13
  • Add files via upload; via commit ed78d19
  • Add files via upload; via commit 56fc6f3
  • Rename the README.md file to README.txt; via commit 69ebc15

These changes predate public disclosure by The Shadow Brokers later the same day, 2016-08-13.

Address of the repository now unavailable:

https://github.com/theshadowbrokers/EQGRP-AUCTION

Copy of the repository still available on 2018-04-22:

https://github.com/x0rz/EQGRP

N.B.: An archive is saved and is available in case of censorship of the above mentioned links.

Content

The directory contains programs, scripts and additional information that most likely come from a group of NSA intrusion experts known under the moniker « The Equation Group ».

Deactivation

The deactivation of the EQGRP-AUCTION repository by Github occurred on 2016-08-15 between 17:24 and 20:19.