Major US Homeland Security breach exposes details on 41,000 employees — undercover ICE agents and contractors…
- DHS data breach exposes personal details of over 41,000 employees and contractors
- The information includes personal information on ICE agents, as well as details of surveillance operations and tools used by undercover agents
- Numerous high-level officials across US government agencies have been named within the breach
The details of over 41,000 Department of Homeland Security employees and contractors has surfaced online, including staffers at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and US Customs and Border Protection, following an apparent data breach.
The leak contains sensitive information such as email addresses, phone numbers, and office addresses for employees alongside internal information on how Homeland Security conducts undercover operations and surveillance programs.
The archive was published by a group calling itself the Department of Peace. They dubbed the leak ‘Icepick’, and shared a note stating, “They have our information, so it’s only fair that we have theirs.”
‘Icepick’ data dump exposes agents and...
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