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Jabaroot Exposes 70,000 Moroccan Officers and Names All 21 Intelligence Chiefs — Workers and Agents Pay the Price

Jabaroot Exposes 70,000 Moroccan Officers and Names All 21 Intelligence Chiefs — Workers and Agents Pay the Price

Jabaroot, a hacker collective that describes itself as «Algerian patriots», published the data of more than 70,000 Moroccan officers this week, including all…

The most sensitive data breach in recent North African history was not carried out by a state actor but by a collective of self-described «Algerian patriots» who have been systematically dismantling Morocco's institutional secrecy since the spring of 2025. This week Jabaroot published the names, identification numbers and positions of more than 70,000 Moroccan police officers and agents, including all 21 heads of the country's intelligence services, putting the personal safety of thousands of public-sector workers at direct risk. --- THE CONTEXT --- Algeria and Morocco severed diplomatic relations in August 2021 amid a long-running rivalry tied, among other issues, to the Western Sahara conflict, a territory Morocco occupies. It is within that geopolitical rupture that Jabaroot emerged. The group's name derives from Arabic and is generally translated as «Almighty» or «Power». The reporting is by El Diario, which describes its sourcing as direct observation by its journalists and informed sources. --- THE FACTS --- Jabaroot's first confirmed operation took place on 8 April 2025: an intrusion into Morocco's Caisse Nationale de Sécurité Sociale, described as the largest data breach ever recorded in the country. The published material comprised approximately 53,000 PDF files and records covering nearly 500,000 companies and roughly two million workers — including names, declared salaries and banking details. Affected entities included AXA, Al Barid Bank and the National Agency for Medicines Safety. That same day the group struck the portal of Morocco's Ministry of Economic Inclusion, Small Business and Employment. The Moroccan government dismissed the incident, arguing the site was purely informational and held no personal data. Jabaroot responded by publishing more than 3,000 payslips it attributed to employees of that ministry. The current week's release of data on 70,000 agents represents a qualitative escalation: it targets the identities of the people who run the security state itself. --- THE POSITIONS --- Jabaroot stated in its Telegram channel that the publication aims to confirm that the movement of Moroccans toward Europe, «starting with Spain, is an official Moroccan plan.» Morocco's government previously downplayed the earlier breaches. No official Moroccan response to the most recent leak has been reported. --- WHAT REMAINS UNKNOWN --- The source does not specify how many of the two million workers whose data were exposed have been formally notified, nor whether Morocco has legal mechanisms to support individuals harmed by large-scale personal data exposure of this kind. --- UNANSWERED QUESTIONS --- • What concrete support, if any, is the Moroccan state offering to the workers whose banking details circulated after the April 2025 breach? • Have independent researchers or third-party institutions verified the authenticity of the 70,000 agent records? • Is there documented evidence of coordination between the Algerian government and Jabaroot, or does the group operate independently? • What measures has Spain taken in response to being named explicitly in Jabaroot's public communications? --- EPM ANALYSIS --- The human cost of these breaches is distributed unequally. The roughly two million workers whose salaries and banking details were released in April 2025 face identity and financial exposure that is difficult to reverse. The 70,000 agents identified this week face physical safety risks that are harder still to contain. 📌 EPM Take: In EPM's view, the most consequential victims of Jabaroot's campaign are not intelligence bureaucracies but the workers, employees and ordinary agents whose data have become ammunition in a geopolitical dispute they did not choose. EPM has covered how the Ceuta crisis exposed fractures inside Spain's own cabinet over intelligence and migration policy; Jabaroot's explicit invocation of Spain as the starting point for what it calls an official Moroccan migration plan inserts this breach directly into that unresolved debate, raising the stakes for workers and communities on both sides of the Strait. Erick Prometeo Media
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