Hacker Leaks Information of 40,000 Employees from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security via Okta

A hacker claiming to be from "Department of Peace" has stated that they obtained a large amount of employee data from the Okta single sign-on system used by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which was publicly released by the data transparency organization DDoSecrets on Wednesday. The leaked records exceed 40,000, accounting for about one-fifth of DHS's approximately 220,000 employees, and include names, positions, work emails, phone numbers, office locations, and associated internal system permissions. Among these, approximately 21,000 records belong to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) personnel, while around 10,000 records involve the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and its Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), with nearly 1,000 records related to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). The authenticity of some data has been verified, with timestamps indicating that the data was exported around mid-August. The hacker provided the data to journalist and hacker maia arson crimew, who then passed it on to DDoSecrets. Okta responded that its systems and data were not breached; the DHS spokesperson has not yet responded to requests for comment. This incident marks the third notable data breach involving U.S. government data in the past month, following the theft of FBI personnel files and Pentagon personnel data.

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