These leaked materials contain the names, office locations, contact information, and specific assignments of the DHS employees.
The group provided this data to the transparency collective Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets) and also to the Swiss hacker and journalist maia arson crimew.
DDoSecrets made the dataset, titled Icepick, publicly available on October 28.
The hacktivists asserted that the information originated from an Okta single sign-on system.
The initial appearance of the post, "Hacktivists leak 41,000 DHS staff records, revealing undercover ICE agents," was on Help Net Security.
This disclosure presents a significant data exposure event involving sensitive internal infrastructure details.
Such incidents highlight ongoing vulnerabilities within enterprise identity and access management platforms utilized by government agencies.
