A data leak has surfaced containing records on over 41,000 Department of Homeland Security employees and contractors, including about 10,000 ICE personnel, according to Wired. The exposed information includes phone numbers, email and office addresses, reporting structures, and access permissions tied to surveillance and wiretapping tools, reportedly sourced from DHS's Okta login system and dated through August 19, 2026. Transparency group Distributed Denial of Secrets published the archive, naming it 'Icepick,' after receiving it from a group calling itself the Department of Peace; Okta says it has found no evidence its systems were breached.
yro.slashdot.org
· 2026-10-28
Boston Dynamics says it will proceed with supplying Spot robots to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, despite a petition signed by more than 300 employees opposing the deal. The roughly $2 million sale, intended for building searches, was approved by the government in late September and delivered through reseller Radeco with Cerberus software installed.
cnet.com
· 2026-10-28
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.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-10-28
A hacking group calling itself the Department of Peace claims to have obtained records on more than 41,000 Department of Homeland Security employees and contractors, including staff at ICE and CBP. The data, published Wednesday by transparency nonprofit Distributed Denial of Secrets under the name 'Icepick,' includes email addresses, phone numbers, office locations, and references to internal and surveillance systems, and reportedly originated from DHS's Okta login system. Okta says it has found no evidence its own systems were compromised.
wired.com
· 2026-10-28
A hacker going by 'Department of Peace' accessed Okta, the identity management service used by the Department of Homeland Security, and stole personal data on more than 41,000 employees. The leaked records include names, job titles, phone numbers, emails and office locations for staff at CBP, ICE, CISA, USCIS and HSI, and also reveal which DHS groups have access to surveillance tools like Mobile Fortify and PenLink. The data was passed to researcher maia arson crimew and published by the nonprofit Distributed Denial of Secrets as the 'Icepick' dataset.
theverge.com
· 2026-10-28
Researchers analyzing six independent datasets collected from 2004 to 2024, including Argo float measurements, found that a deep Southern Ocean layer called Antarctic Intermediate Water has rapidly become saltier since 2016, reversing decades of freshening. The change coincides with a sharp drop in Antarctic sea ice extent that began around 2016 after a record high in 2014, with ice extent hitting another low in 2023.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-10-28
Defense attorneys for 15 Minnesota residents facing federal conspiracy charges have obtained internal DHS/ICE records—reports, intercepted Signal chats, emails, photos and database queries—documenting investigations codenamed Project Whipple Shield and Operation Puppet Master. The operations were authorized under National Security Presidential Memorandum 7, issued after Charlie Kirk's assassination, which directs federal agencies to use all available tools against critics of the administration and groups deemed 'anti-Christian.'
wired.com
· 2026-10-28
Community groups in Columbus, Ohio and other U.S. cities are deploying trained volunteers to monitor and report ICE activity near polling locations ahead of the midterm elections. In Columbus, organizer Liliana Rivera Baiman says dozens of volunteers already patrol near early voting sites, with numbers expected to reach about 250 on Election Day, communicating sightings through Signal and WhatsApp groups. The effort follows ICE's Operation Buckeye last December, which targeted the city's Somali American community near a polling site.
wired.com
· 2026-10-27
A Science study led by Columbia geologist Nicolás Young examined the Barnes Ice Cap, the last surviving fragment of the Laurentide Ice Sheet in the Canadian Arctic, and found it shrank to its smallest size about 3,600 years ago before starting to expand again around 2,000 years ago. The researchers say that regrowth, which they interpret as the beginning of a new glaciation, halted and reversed around 1960 due to human-caused warming.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-10-24
Research published in Science analyzed ancient vegetation and rock samples around Canada's Barnes Ice Cap, a remnant of the Laurentide Ice Sheet on Baffin Island, finding it had been expanding for thousands of years before abruptly reversing in the 1960s. Scientists tied that reversal to the sharp rise in carbon emissions during that period.
wired.com
· 2026-10-22
Researchers studying the chemical composition of Uranus and Neptune have concluded that despite their similar size and color, the two ice giants likely formed through different processes. The findings suggest their resemblance is largely superficial rather than evidence of a shared origin.
gizmodo.com
· 2026-10-20
An internal audit at the Savannah Police Department flagged nearly 1,000 license-plate-reader searches tied to officer Amber Harpe's account between January and July. Investigators found Harpe had given her username and password to her husband, a Homeland Security ICE agent who lacked his own Flock access, and he told investigators he used it to locate immigration targets with active warrants. The department fired Harpe for violating policy and undermining accountability safeguards meant to track who accesses the surveillance system.
wjcl.com
· 2026-10-19
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