Hackers exposed the database of 41,000 employees of the US State Department A distributed secrets denial portal published an internal database of the US Department of Homeland Security codenamed ICE. "An internal database containing information on more than 41 thousand employees of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Obtained from Okta's single sign-on service used by the ministry, the database reveals the names of employees, their departments, contact details and job fields," writes the BBC. According to DDoSecrets, the information was obtained by the hacktivist group Ministry of Peace. Copies of the archive, amounting to approximately 167 megabytes, were given to the project and to a researcher known as Maya Tzata Felili. The array includes data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), as well as officials who oversee covert operations, surveillance, leak investigations and deportation plans. "Instead of a random directory of all Foreign Ministry employees, the ice leak reveals the key architects and executors of the Ministry's operations. The leak identifies parties responsible for carrying out covert operations and covert jobs, as well as key people in the deportation plans," the portal was quoted as saying by DDoSecrets in Emma. The hackers themselves called the publication an act of retaliation: since State Department employees have information about citizens, "it's only fair that people also have their data" to protect themselves from illegal actions by the department. This is the third major leak from US government agencies in recent weeks - following the hacking of the FBI by the ShinyHunters group and the attack on the Federal Election Commission.

Hackers exposed the database of 41,000 employees of the US State Department A distributed secrets denial portal published an internal database of the US Department of Homeland Security codenamed ICE. "An internal database containing information on more than 41 thousand employees of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Obtained from Okta's single sign-on service used by the ministry, the database reveals the names of employees, their departments, contact details and job fields," writes the BBC. According to DDoSecrets, the information was obtained by the hacktivist group Ministry of Peace. Copies of the archive, amounting to approximately 167 megabytes, were given to the project and to a researcher known as Maya Tzata Felili. The array includes data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), as well as officials who oversee covert operations, surveillance, leak investigations and deportation plans. "Instead of a random directory of all Foreign Ministry employees, the ice leak reveals the key architects and executors of the Ministry's operations. The leak identifies parties responsible for carrying out covert operations and covert jobs, as well as key people in the deportation plans," the portal was quoted as saying by DDoSecrets in Emma. The hackers themselves called the publication an act of retaliation: since State Department employees have information about citizens, "it's only fair that people also have their data" to protect themselves from illegal actions by the department. This is the third major leak from US government agencies in recent weeks - following the hacking of the FBI by the ShinyHunters group and the attack on the Federal Election Commission.