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
A hacking group called Department of Peace obtained records on more than 41,000 Department of Homeland Security employees and contractors, including staff at ICE and CBP, and leaked them to transparency nonprofit DDoSecrets, which published the trove as 'Icepick.' The data includes emails, phone numbers, office addresses and details on internal systems and surveillance programs, reportedly pulled from DHS's Okta login system, though Okta says it has found no evidence of a breach.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-10-29
Distributed Denial of Secrets published an archive called 'Icepick' containing login records for more than 41,000 Department of Homeland Security employees and contractors across DHS and seven component agencies, including ICE and CBP. The files include contact details and over 55,000 permission groups showing which surveillance and investigative systems—such as Palantir's Falcon, PenLink, and wiretap programs—each person can access, with records last updated in August. DDoSecrets says the data came from DHS's Okta login system, a claim Okta disputes, stating it has no evidence of a breach.
techspot.com
· 2026-10-29
A group calling itself the Department of Peace stole and released records for more than 41,000 Homeland Security personnel, including email addresses, phone numbers and office locations, plus details tied to undercover and surveillance programs. About 21,000 records belong to Customs and Border Protection staff and 10,000 to ICE personnel, with a third of those linked to Homeland Security Investigations. The group says it obtained the data through Okta, the single sign-on service DHS uses, though Okta told Wired it found no evidence its own systems or data were compromised.
engadget.com
· 2026-10-29
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
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
Okta has joined AWS, Google Cloud, Salesforce and other tech companies to form an alliance aimed at improving visibility, control and governance over AI agents. The group is pushing for a 'kill switch' mechanism that would let organizations quickly shut down AI agents exhibiting suspicious or autonomous behavior. The effort follows several incidents where AI agents reportedly acted outside intended boundaries, including one OpenAI described as 'unprecedented' and another involving Google Gemini agents affecting three companies.
zdnet.com
· 2026-09-24
Threat group ShinyHunters publicly taunted security vendor ReliaQuest, posting screenshots suggesting a compromised employee account and listing the company on its data leak site. ReliaQuest confirmed an employee was tricked via a vishing attack into entering credentials on a fake single sign-on page, but said the attacker only gained view-only access and could not move laterally or reach internal applications.
darkreading.com
· 2026-09-03
CrowdStrike and Okta both topped Wall Street's second-quarter estimates and raised their forecasts, pointing to rising AI-related cyberattacks as a driver of increased customer spending on security tools. CrowdStrike shares rose 15% and Okta jumped 20%, while Palo Alto Networks, SailPoint and Rubrik each gained roughly 9% as the sector rallied broadly.
cnbc.com
· 2026-08-27
Okta reported quarterly revenue up 11% to over $800 million and net income more than doubling to $116 million, beating Wall Street estimates and sending shares up 19%. The company said new products, including its Okta for AI Agents tool now available to all customers, drove 30% of total bookings, with dozens of new AI-related deals closed including a multi-million-dollar healthcare contract.
cnbc.com
· 2026-08-26
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