یک هکر اطلاعات تماس بیش‌از ۴۱ هزار کارمند وزارت امنیت داخلی آمریکا را به سرقت برد

Personal, organizational, and positional information belonging to over 41,000 employees of the United States Department of Homeland Security was stolen following a cyberattack. The leaked files include names, job titles, phone numbers, email addresses, and office locations of personnel from sensitive organizations such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection.

According to Wired, a hacker using the alias 'Department of Peace' penetrated the database via the Okta identity and access management service. Approximately 21,000 of the leaked records belong to Customs and Border Protection officers, nearly 7,000 files relate to Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel, and other documents belong to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and subsidiary bodies.

Regarding their motivation, the infiltrator involved in the leak stated that since federal agencies possess their data, it is only fair that they possess the agencies' data. The stolen information, known as Icepick, was handed over through a cybersecurity researcher to the non-profit organization DDoSecrets for hosting. The published data highlights which organizational groups have had access to advanced surveillance tools such as the Mobile Fortify facial recognition software and the PenLink data tracking and analysis system.