The much known hacktivist group Anonymous loves to remain in news for one or another reason. Just last week when WikiLeaks started publishing a massive trove of emails related to Syria Files Project, the Anonymous group took the credit for having provided Syrian emails to Wikileaks. The hacktivist group released a statement on Peoples Liberation Front, saying that its team has succeeded in creating a massive breach of multiple domains and dozens of servers inside Syria. The Syrian Files include more than 2.4 million e-mails between Syrian politicians, government officials, and companies dating from August 2006 until March 2012.

In its press release, Anonymous talked liberally about its collaboration with Wikileaks and said,

“Having already formed a partnership with WikiLeaks in the disclosure of the ‘Stratfor Files,’ it seemed natural and obvious to continue this historic partnership between Anonymous and WikiLeaks with the disclosure of the ‘Syria Files. Expect many more disclosures of this type in the future as this wonderful partnership between WikiLeaks and Anonymous continues to grow stronger and change human history.”

Wikileaks reported the posting of Syrian emails on July 5, when project analyst Sarah Harrison stated that they have gathered 2,434,899 emails from 680 Syrian-related entities and domains.

“The Syria Files shine a light on the inner workings of the Syrian government and economy, but they also reveal how the West and Western companies say one thing and do another,” Harrison said.

The e-mail database is comprised of e-mails in various languages such as German, Spanish, and French which they provide translation for, and about 400,000 e-mails in Arabic, and 68,000 in Russian. Earlier, Wikileaks did not disclose that how e-mails were obtained along with their verified status, it is quite clear from the Anonymous’ announcement that the hactivist team is the one who deserves the credit.

“In such a large collection of information, it is not possible to verify every single email at once; however, WikiLeaks and its co-publishers have done so for all initial stories to be published. We are statistically confident that the vast majority of the data are what they purport to be,” reported Wikileaks.

Besides, Wikileaks also cautioned that not all of the 2.4 million emails–around 42,000 of which had been infected with viruses or Trojan malware–could be presumed to be legitimate.