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Hacker exposes 41,000 DHS employee records via Okta breach

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.