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A data leak has exposed personal and professional information belonging to more than 41,000 Department of Homeland Security employees, according to a report. The exposed records reportedly include names, phone numbers, job titles, and work assignments for staff across agencies such as ICE and CBP.
A hacker using the handle Department of Peace has published personally identifiable information for more than 40,000 Department of Homeland Security employees, obtained in a previously undisclosed breach of DHS's Okta single sign-on system. The leaked records include names, job titles, work emails, cell numbers and office locations, with over 21,000 tied to Customs and Border Protection staff and roughly 10,000 tied to ICE and its Homeland Security Investigations unit. The hacker left a note saying the data was released because the agency holds information on the public.
New court filings reveal that Homeland Security Investigations flagged activist Samuel Tunick for suspected 'terrorist activities' before CBP agents stopped him at an Atlanta airport, but officers told him they were searching his phone for child sexual abuse material. Tunick, tied to the Stop Cop City protest movement, now faces up to five years in prison for allegedly wiping his GrapheneOS phone during the stop, under a rarely used law normally applied in cases like drug trafficking.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced it will suspend all personal importation of prescription medications beginning October 22, affecting Americans who order drugs from licensed Canadian pharmacies. The Canadian Pharmacy International Patients group is urging affected consumers to join its advocacy effort to preserve access to lower-cost medication.
An investigation involving over 45 interviews with officials, Border Patrol agents, medical examiners and tech workers found that Anduril's AI-powered surveillance towers along the US-Mexico border are both failing to detect migrants and, when detections do occur, agents are failing to respond in time. Anduril says CBP operates the towers post-delivery and that surveillance range depends on terrain and privacy-related boundaries CBP itself sets.
An investigation by MIT Technology Review and Times of San Diego found that people have died undetected near AI-enabled surveillance towers along the US-Mexico border, including sites using technology from defense contractor Anduril. The reporters documented broken equipment, detection algorithms that missed people, and agents who failed to act on alerts, even as CBP plans to spend $1 billion to triple the system's size by 2034.
404 Media reports that Customs and Border Protection operates a little-known unit, the Predictive Intelligence Targeting Team, which reportedly analyzes Americans' financial transaction records and other data to identify people for traffic stops and further scrutiny. CBP declined to detail its methods, citing operational security, while civil liberties attorneys argue the program extends surveillance far beyond CBP's traditional border mission.