Company
Date Published
Author
Bryce Merkl Sasaki
Word count
263
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

The Panama Papers investigation was a massive data leak in 2015 revealing the illicit use of offshore bank accounts by wealthy individuals. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) used graph technology, specifically Neo4j and Linkurious, to quickly discover hidden relationships between entities in the leaked documents. This effort led to over $1.2 billion in tax revenue being recouped in 22 countries and earned the ICIJ a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting in 2017. A movie about the investigation, "The Laundromat", starring Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, and Antonio Banderas, is now available to watch on Netflix.