Hacker publishes data of over 40,000 US homeland security staff
Personal details of more than 40,000 employees of the US Department of Homeland Security were published online after a hacker stole the data earlier this year. The exposed information includes names, job titles, work email addresses, cell phone numbers and office locations. About 21,000 records relate to Customs and Border Protection staff and roughly 10,000 to Immigration and Customs Enforcement and HSI employees, with the rest from CISA. The hacking group Department of Peace claims it obtained the data through DHS's Okta single sign-on system. DHS says it is aware of a potential breach and is working to address it.
Key facts
- The leaked data was passed to researcher maia arson crimew, who shared it with Distributed Denial of Secrets.
- Distributed Denial of Secrets posted the data online in a database called Icepick.
- Records also include employees of CISA, USCIS and HSI, according to The Verge.
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Why it matters
The leak exposes contact details of staff at several federal security agencies, and it follows other recent breaches of US government systems.
What changed
First published from TechCrunch, The Verge, NPR and CNBC