As politicians and celebrities come under immense public scrutiny following the Panama Papers hack, the clever money seems to be on the Mossack Fonseca leak being caused by an external hacker.

With 11 million documents, including 4.8 million emails, among the 2.6TB of data exfiltrated from the Panamanian law firm, it's hardly surprising that claims of 'nation state hackers' are being made.

However, this wasn't the work of some shadowy intelligence-led operation exploiting zero-days and applying the skills of master hackers. Not least as Suddeutsche Zeitung, the German newspaper which ran the investigation into the contents of the leaked documents, insists it had received the files steadily over the course of a year and the data was constantly being updated.

You also have to ask yourself what a nation state would have to gain from exposing the tax avoidance shenanigans of the establishment. It's far more likely to be politically motivated at the hacktivist end of the scale, if you ask me. Indeed, I reckon we could be talking about a revolution.

No, not that kind - rather the Revolution Slider WordPress plugin. Here's the thing, investigations show that the law firm was making data accessible via a web portal that was running a version of Drupal known to be vulnerable to various exploits.