Hacker leaks data of thousands of US Homeland Security employees

A hacker has obtained and leaked personally identifiable information about thousands of US Homeland Security employees, including those working for Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The leak affects over 40,000 employees and includes sensitive details such as names, job titles, and work contact information. According to some reports, the breach was accessed through a single sign-on service called Okta.

The breach is significant, with the number of leaked records equivalent to about one-fifth of Homeland Security's total workforce of around 220,000 staff. This has raised concerns about the potential consequences for affected employees. The leak includes names and work contact information of Homeland Security employees, with more than half of the dataset relating to employees with U.

S. Customs and Border Protection. The data also contains records associated with employees of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.