Hackers publish data on more than 40,000 DHS personnel
Crime · First reported 29 Oct, 12:31 · Updated 18:28
A searchable online database contains records identifying more than 40,000 Department of Homeland Security personnel and associates, including staff linked to undercover operations. The hackers say they obtained the data by subverting DHS’s single sign-on system; DHS says it is addressing a potential breach.
- The published data includes records for more than 41,000 DHS agents, operatives and associates; over 21,000 identify Customs and Border Protection employees, and about 10,000 concern ICE and Homeland Security Investigations.
- The Department of Peace says it obtained the data by subverting DHS’s single sign-on system and shared it with Distributed Denial of Secrets, which worked with a Swiss activist to create a searchable database.
- DHS says it is aware of a potential breach and is working to address it and protect personnel. Activists describe the release as useful for oversight and freedom-of-information requests; a journalist involved rejected the characterization of the release as doxing.
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Key facts
- Records
- More than 41,000 records identify DHS agents, operatives and associates.
- CBP records
- More than 21,000 records identify Customs and Border Protection employees.
- ICE and HSI records
- About 10,000 records concern ICE employees and Homeland Security Investigations.
- DHS response
- DHS said it was aware of a potential breach and was working to address it.
- Share of workforce
- The article says the database represents about a fifth of DHS’s workforce, which numbers a little over 220,000 people.
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Background
- An earlier Lux story reported that the Icepick dataset contains work contact details and internal organizational information for more than 41,000 DHS employees and contractors; it also noted that Okta said it had found no evidence its systems or data were compromised.
- Another earlier Lux story said Distributed Denial of Secrets released information about more than 40,000 DHS employees, while reporting that the full dataset and how it was obtained had not been independently verified.
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