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October 28, 2026
According to BBC, Best said, "The leak is extraordinary but deceptive in it's simplicity as it identifies the officials responsible for overseeing covert and undercover operations, the government's hunt for leakers and the failed BlueLeaks investigation - along with key personnel in DHS's ever-escalating rendition and deportation programs".
BBC reports that details of more than 41,000 personnel working for the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), including thousands involved in immigration enforcement, have been leaked to the public. The identities of over 41,000 officials from the Department of Homeland Security have allegedly been exposed in a massive data breach by a hacktivist group calling itself the Department of Peace, CNBC reports. A hacking group cracked the US Department of Homeland Security's personnel files, exposing the names, phone numbers and addresses of more than 40,000 DHS agents, operatives, and associates, on October 28, including those involved in undercover operations, NPR reports.
According to BBC, Best said, "The leak is extraordinary but deceptive in it's simplicity as it identifies the officials responsible for overseeing covert and undercover operations, the government's hunt for leakers and the failed BlueLeaks investigation - along with key personnel in DHS's ever-escalating rendition and deportation programs". The Department of Peace also shared the trove of data with Ryan Ottignon, a US-based journalist, and a Swiss hacker known as maia arson crimew, NPR reports. According to The Guardian, in a statement, Emma Best, a Distributed Denial of Secrets co-founder, said the hacktivist known as “maia arson crimew” developed a search tool for the data that would allow the public to browse it. DHS completed 980,000 deportations in the first 18 months of his term, according to the Migration Policy Institute, CNBC reports. Since President Donald Trump returned to office in 2025, the US has enacted nearly 1 million deportations, according to data from the Migration Policy Institute, BBC reports.
According to The Guardian, Okta said, “Okta is secure, and we have no evidence our data or systems were compromised.”
BBC reports that details of more than 41,000 personnel working for the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), including thousands involved in immigration enforcement, have been leaked to the public. The identities of over 41,000 officials from the Department of Homeland Security have allegedly been exposed in a massive data breach by a hacktivist group calling itself the Department of Peace, CNBC reports. A hacking group cracked the US Department of Homeland Security's personnel files, exposing the names, phone numbers and addresses of more than 40,000 DHS agents, operatives, and associates, on October 28, including those involved in undercover operations, NPR reports. Data identifying more than 41,000 employees and contractors for the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was released on October 28 in an unprecedented leak that reveals how the agency is organized, The Guardian reports. The leak includes names, work addresses and phone numbers of DHS staff, including agents working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection, along with descriptions of the work descriptions do for each agency, BBC reports. DHS did not immediately return a message seeking comment, The Guardian reports. The Guardian reports that Reuters could not immediately verify the authenticity of the entire data trove but it was able to match personal information of about six DHS employees named in the leak to credit bureau records and breach data carried by the dark web intelligence platform District 4 Labs. Okta is a popular online security tool that organisations use to ensure that only people with access to internal platforms are logging on to them, BBC reports.
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BBC reports that the leak includes names, work addresses and phone numbers of DHS staff, including agents working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection, along with descriptions of the work descriptions do for each agency. BBC reports that a group called the Department of Peace accessed the information from DHS, while journalist and cybersecurity researcher maia crimew alongside the website Distributed Denial of Secrets put it online. The database appears to reveal employee names, offices, contact information and assignments, and is searchable, CNBC reports.
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- BBC — Details of thousands of US immigration agents leaked in major hack
- CNBC — Over 41,000 U.S. Homeland Security officials' details apparently exposed after massive data breach
- NBC News — DHS hack exposes 40,000 employee names and undercover ICE agents, activists say - NBC News
- NPR — Hackers expose the identities of more than 40,000 DHS employees
- The Guardian — Non-profit group leaks data of more than 40,000 homeland security workers
Toggle read the full reports of 5 of the 7 outlets counted on this event. The other 2 are counted from their headlines and opening sentences.