Ahead of the data dump, The New York Times obtained the documents from a source who remains anonymous.

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The hackers at least gave them some warning, Tweeting earlier today that there was four hours to go before their data dump.

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Now the data dump at the Second Circuit Court of Appeals reveals the kind of attorney discussions normally cloaked under the veil of privilege.

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has reportedly been calling her counterparts abroad to give them the heads up about the data dump and what might be in it.

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In Click, his fast-selling book released earlier this month, he argues that the ISP's massive data dump can tell us what consumers want, predict the economic future and maybe even offer insight into human nature.

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One of the things that keeps our list of billionaires from being nothing but a dull data dump is that we try to understand the motivation, the inspiration, that gives these people their drive, ambition and endless energy.

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Bank of America shares fell 3 percent in trading the day after Mr. Assange made his threat against a nameless bank, and while the stock has since recovered, the prospect of a Bank of America data dump from WikiLeaks remains a concern, said Moshe Orenbuch, an analyst with Credit Suisse.

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So far, the Democrats have had the upper hand in this data-dump game because the charges against Clinton have been so thoroughly aired.

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But a dump of personal data can also turn off the people you are trying to communicate with.

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The fact that if you dump the recovery data onto a USB stick (which is good practice anyway) you get 97.5 GB of storage.

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In one demo, Mr Aboukhadijeh managed to dump one gigabyte of data every 16 seconds onto a vulnerable Macbook.

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