Details of thousands of US immigration agents leaked in major hack
Summary
A group called the Department of Peace and cybersecurity researcher maia crimew published information on more than 41,000 Department of Homeland Security personnel. The data includes names, work addresses, phone numbers and descriptions of employees’ roles, including staff at Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection.Key Facts
- The information was posted Wednesday in a database called Icepick on a website hosted by Distributed Denial of Secrets.
- The Department of Peace said it accessed DHS employee profiles through Okta, a single sign-on service used to manage access to internal platforms.
- Okta said it was aware of the claims and had no evidence that its systems or data were compromised.
- A DHS representative did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
- The Department of Peace and DDoSecrets said the release was intended to promote accountability, rather than create a directory of every DHS agent.
- The article describes this as the third recent leak or hack targeting a government agency.
- Last month, a group called ShinyHunters took personal information about thousands of FBI agents, according to the article.
- The Federal Election Commission was recently taken offline after a suspected hacking attempt.
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