THE MASKS JUST CAME OFF, DIGITALLY! Details of more than 41,000 people working for the US Department of Homeland Security have been leaked to the public, the BBC reported.
The leak includes names, work addresses and phone numbers, plus descriptions of their work, for staff including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents. More than 21,000 work for CBP and nearly 6,600 for ICE, according to the data, which also lists Homeland Security Investigations, the Federal Protective Service and even CISA, the government’s own cybersecurity agency.
A group calling itself the Department of Peace says it got in through the single sign-on service Okta. Okta says: “Okta is secure, and we have no evidence our data or systems were compromised.” Journalist and researcher maia crimew and the site Distributed Denial of Secrets published the database, named Icepick. It also lists dozens of previously unknown operation names and some of the tech used, including from Cellebrite and Palantir.
DHS says it is “aware of a potential breach and is actively working to address the situation swiftly and effectively.” DDoSecrets co-founder Emma Best said the aim was to replace “anonymity with accountability.”
It’s the third government leak or hack in recent weeks: the FBI was hit by ShinyHunters last month, and the Federal Election Commission went offline in recent days over a suspected hacking attempt.
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Sources: BBC News
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