On Monday, 24 August, the hacker collective Jabaroot published data containing names, dates of birth, national ID numbers, employee numbers and recruitment years for around 70,000 people linked to Moroccan intelligence.
The threat to publish the data had been made only days earlier, in connection with the Ceuta crisis. The material was disseminated via Telegram channels linked to Jabaroot and quickly circulated on social media and in the Spanish media (El Confidencial, Infobae, LaSexta, ABC and others).
– King’s adviser Fouad Ali el Himma responsible for migrant wave
According to the group itself and media coverage, data on around 70,000 people linked to the Direction Générale de la Surveillance du Territoire (DGST) – Moroccan domestic intelligence – and the Direction Générale de la Sûreté Nationale (DGSN) – the police – have been made public. In addition, there is a smaller list of approximately 1,400 public figures that also includes grades/ranks and bank identification numbers.
Jabaroot presented the publication as “the great gift to Europe and especially to Spain”, and explicitly linked it to the events in Ceuta. They claim that the agents have operated in Europe as spies and link them to wiretapping and bribery.
🔴 ÚLTIMA HORA | El grupo de hackers que amenazó con revelar la base de datos de la inteligencia marroquí cumple su promesa y filtra información de unos 70.000 espías
Por Unai Cano (@unaicano10)https://t.co/T5IwScqNpd
— LA GACETA (@gaceta_es) August 24, 2026
Several former Moroccan intelligence agents have confirmed to Spanish media that at least parts of the lists are authentic, including the names of senior figures within the DGST. Spanish intelligence is also said to have recognised names that it already has under surveillance. Full independent verification of all 70,000 has so far not been made public.
For Morocco, this is described as the largest security breach in the country’s intelligence and police apparatus ever. The exposure of so many identities weakens operational security, increases the risk to agents who have operated or are operating abroad, especially in Europe, creates internal unrest and has potentially long-lasting consequences for Morocco’s relations with Spain, Europe and the rest of the world.
Hackere truer med å offentliggjøre 70.000 navn på marokkanske etterretningsagenter
King Mohammed VI’s “extraordinarily close friend” Fouad Ali El Hamma is named as one of the principal planners of the Ceuta invasion. Photo: Simo2korn / CC BY-SA 4.0
Jabaroot has already announced further leaks, including a specific list of those who “organised and coordinated the Ceuta plan”. Jabaroot points directly to Abdellatif Hammouchi, head of both the DGST and DGSN, and the King’s extraordinarily close adviser Fouad Ali Al-Hamma (also transcribed as el Himma), as responsible for the migrant wave.
Following the leak, Jabaroot has suggested that it also possesses “original Pegasus data” linked to Sánchez, which has brought the group further attention.
