Cybersecurity

Massive leak exposes 41,000 DHS workers and undercover ICE agents

A leak of Department of Homeland Security records has exposed over 41,000 employees and contractors' personal information, including email addresses, phone numbers, and office addresses. The leak also included details of internal systems and sensitive information on undercover and surveillance programs. The records were obtained from DHS's Okta login system, but Okta denies any breach of its systems. The leak was published by the transparency nonprofit Distributed Denial of Secrets, which says it obtained the data from a group called the Department of Peace. The leak comes as DHS has been aggressively pursuing its critics and expanding its definition of 'doxing' to include the publication of basic facts about public employees.

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