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Hacktivists leak personal data of 41,000 DHS employees via Okta breach

A group calling itself the Department of Peace breached an Okta single sign-on system used by the Department of Homeland Security, stealing names, contact details and job assignments for more than 41,000 employees, including CBP and ICE workers. The stolen data was published in a searchable tool called Icepick on the Distributed Denial of Secrets site, built with help from researcher maia arson crimew. DHS confirmed it is aware of a 'potential breach' and is working to address it.

cnet.com · 2026-10-29

Hacking group leaks personal data of 40,000+ DHS employees

A hacktivist group called Department of Peace said it breached DHS's single sign-on system, stealing names, phone numbers and addresses of more than 40,000 agency personnel, including undercover operatives. The data was shared with Distributed Denial of Secrets and published in a searchable database called Icepick, built with help from journalist Ryan Ottignon and hacker maia arson crimew. DHS confirmed it is aware of a potential breach and is working to address it, with over 21,000 records tied to CBP staff and roughly 10,000 to ICE and its Homeland Security Investigations unit.

text.npr.org · 2026-10-29