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Hackers leaked details of more than 41,000 Homeland Security personnel

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Hackers leaked details of more than 41,000 Homeland Security personnel

They include email addresses and phone numbers of ICE agents and border police.

A hacktivist group stole records for more than 41,000 Homeland Security personnel and got help to release it on the web, according to Wired, the Washington Post and NPR. The leaked records contain email addresses, phone numbers and office addresses of the personnel, but they also include sensitive information about the agency's undercover and surveillance programs.

Of the records that were leaked, 21,000 identify people working with the US Customs and Border Protection, while 10,000 records belong to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel. A third of those records is related to the Homeland Security Investigations unit, the criminal investigative arm of ICE. Overall, the leaks expose the details of a seventh of Homeland Security's workforce.

"On July 17th, Markwayne Mullin said he was 'turning up the heat.' This is what happens to ICE when you do that," the hacktivist group calling itself the Department of Peace said in a statement. They're talking about the DHS' Secretary's words during a press conference, wherein he said that the agency is "turning up the heat on the streets" when asked how it would hold the agents who violated its use of force policy accountable. The agency held the press conference following the fatal shootings of Joan Sebastian Duran Guerrero from Maine and Lorenzo Salgado Araujo from Houston, neither of whom were subject to ICE's enforcement activities.

The group apparently stole the data via Okta, the single sign-on service used by the DHS.


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