Hackers Publish Work Details of 41,000 Homeland Security Employees
Summary
Distributed Denial of Secrets published a searchable dataset listing 41,191 DHS employees and contractors, including names, job titles, offices, contact details, managers and more than 55,000 internal permission groups. The group says hacktivists obtained the records from DHS’s Okta single sign-on service; Okta says it has no evidence its systems or data were compromised. DHS acknowledged a potential breach and is investigating, and sought removal of the data. The archive’s search site later stopped loading. Researchers warn the directory could enable impersonation or expose personnel involved in sensitive work, though the dataset reportedly contains no home addresses and some records are outdated.
