Leak website releases data on thousands of US Homeland Security employees
OKTA•Distributed Denial of Secrets said it released data on more than 40,000 Department of Homeland Security employees, including names, contact information and details about staff in sensitive roles. DHS said it was aware of a potential breach and was working to address it.
1. Employee data released
Distributed Denial of Secrets said it released data on more than 40,000 DHS employees, including staff from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Protection, Homeland Security Investigations and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. The data includes names, phone numbers, email addresses, job titles and email groups, with details identifying agents assigned to special operations, surveillance, computer forensics and undercover work.
2. Breach under review
DHS said it was aware of a potential breach and was working to address the situation and protect employees. The nonprofit said the data came from an entity calling itself the Department of Peace; its co-founder said the data had been harvested from DHS's Okta sign-on service. Okta said it had no evidence its systems or data were compromised, and the report said it could not immediately corroborate the claim or verify the entire data trove.
