Details of thousands of US immigration agents leaked in major hack
Details of more than 41,000 US Department of Homeland Security personnel, including thousands of immigration enforcement agents, have been leaked to the public.
Details of more than 41,000 people working for the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), including thousands involved in immigration enforcement, have been leaked to the public.
The leak includes names, work addresses and phone numbers of DHS staff, including agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection, along with descriptions of the work they do for each agency.
Most of the agents named, more than 21,000, work for Customs and Border Protection, according to the data, while nearly 6,600 work for ICE. Other records cover Homeland Security Investigations, the Federal Protective Service and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
The information was published online by a group called the Department of Peace alongside a cybersecurity researcher, in a database named Icepick shared through a website hosted by Distributed Denial of Secrets. The groups said the aim was to replace anonymity with accountability. A DHS representative did not immediately respond to a request for comment, and Okta, the single sign-on service the group said it used to access the profiles, said it had no evidence its data or systems were compromised.
The leak is the third time in recent weeks a US government agency has been targeted, following a hack of the FBI and a suspected hacking attempt that took the Federal Election Commission offline.
Reporting based on coverage from MyJoyOnline.