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Data on over 41,000 Homeland Security employees leaked

First reported · Last reported · 77 related reports

Information on more than 41,000 US Department of Homeland Security employees was stolen and published online. The leaked material included information on Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection employees, as well as the identities of undercover agents. The Department of Homeland Security launched an investigation into the leak.

Key facts

Affected organisation
US Department of Homeland Security
Incident type
Data breach
Occurred / detected
Not confirmed
Scale of damage
Information on more than 41,000 employees
Cause / method
Theft of personnel information through hacking and its publication online
Location
United States

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Timeline

  1. The publication of information on more than 41,000 employees and undercover agents came to light, and the Department of Homeland Security launched an investigation.
  2. It emerged that personal information on approximately 300 Homeland Security personnel based in Philadelphia had also been exposed.

77 related reports

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