Hacktivists publish records of more than 41,000 DHS employees
Original title: Hacktivists leak 41,000 DHS staff records, revealing undercover ICE agents
The Icepick dataset, published October 28, covers ICE and CBP staff and groups tied to undercover work; Okta denies a breach.
A hacktivist group calling itself the Department of Peace gave records on more than 41,000 Department of Homeland Security employees to DDoSecrets and journalist maia arson crimew. DDoSecrets published the dataset, named Icepick, on October 28. The hacktivists say the records came from an Okta single sign-on service used by DHS; Okta told Reuters it has no evidence its systems were compromised. DHS said it is aware of a potential breach and is working to address it. A searchable directory indexes 41,191 people, including undercover-related Homeland Security Investigations groups.
Unconfirmed: The hacktivists attribute the theft to an Okta SSO, but Okta says it has no evidence its data or systems were compromised.
- Customs and Border Protection accounts for 21,329 entries and ICE for 6,598.
- The index also lists 55,603 internal groups, offices and locations.
- Reuters matched six named employees to records and called three of them.
- CISA employees are excluded from searches by default.
- Crimew’s site says source inaccuracies may be reproduced and not every employee is listed.
Impact: DHS staff names, contacts, offices and assignments exposed
- Vendors
- Okta
- Threat actors
- Department of Peace
- Organizations
- Distributed Denial of Secrets
- Countries
- United States
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Names, offices, contact details and assignments of more than 41,000 U. S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees have been leaked by a hacktivist group calling itself the Department of Peace.
By Sinisa Markovic · helpnetsecurity.com
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