Personal and professional details for more than 41,000 personnel within the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have been leaked online. The breach exposes thousands of agents involved in immigration enforcement who frequently operate with covered faces and without visible identification.
Breach Details and Affected Agencies
Published on Wednesday, the leaked database—named "Icepick" and hosted via the website Distributed Denial of Secrets—contains names, work addresses, and phone numbers. The compromised records cover more than 21,000 personnel from Customs and Border Protection, nearly 6,600 from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and workers from Homeland Security Investigations, the Federal Protective Service, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. The leak also reveals dozens of previously unknown operation names, leadership details, and technologies utilized by the agencies.
The hack was carried out by a group called the Department of Peace alongside cybersecurity researcher and hacker maia crimew, who stated they accessed the records through a single sign-on service called Okta. A spokesperson for Okta stated the company has no evidence that its own data or systems were compromised. A representative for the DHS did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
According to Emma Best, co-founder of Distributed Denial of Secrets, the publication aims to replace official anonymity with accountability regarding personnel overseeing covert operations and deportation programs. The disclosure follows a series of recent US government cyberattacks, including a hack targeting the FBI last month and a suspected hacking attempt that temporarily took the Federal Election Commission offline.
