Hacktivists leak 41,000 DHS staff records, revealing undercover ICE agents

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. The group handed the data to the transparency collective Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets) and to Swiss hacker and journalist maia arson crimew. DDoSecrets published the dataset, named Icepick, on October 28. Ac…

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