Leak exposes 41,000 Homeland Security staff, including ICE and CBP agents
The DHS leak lists staff in groups tied to undercover operations, wiretaps and Palantir software. By Thursday, DHS had filed a takedown notice, and a search site for the data was offline.
Via TNW | Data-security
Records on more than 41,000 employees and contractors of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are now online. They include names, email addresses, phone numbers, job titles and office locations. The staff work for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and other DHS agencies.
WIRED, which was given a preview of the data, reported the leak on Wednesday in a story by Dhruv Mehrotra, Maddy Varner and Dell Cameron. The transparency nonprofit Distributed Denial of…
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