Non-profit group leaks data of more than 40,000 homeland security workers
Information released by Distributed Denial of Secrets is the third such government data disclosure in the last month
TL;DR
- Distributed Denial of Secrets released data on over 40,000 DHS employees.
- The leaked data includes names, phone numbers, email addresses, and job titles.
- Sensitive information about employees in surveillance, human intelligence, and undercover work is included.
- The entity "Department of Peace" claims responsibility for obtaining the data.
- This is the third significant government data leak in the last month.
- The data was allegedly harvested from the Okta sign-on service used by DHS.
- Okta has stated its systems were not compromised.