A hacker stole more than 40,000 DHS employee records

A hacker stole a trove of idiosyncratic accusation from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The breach exposes the names, occupation titles, telephone numbers, email addresses, and bureau locations of much than 41,000 employees, including those successful US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), according to TechCrunch and Wired. The information besides linked the agencies to circumstantial surveillance tools.

As reported by TechCrunch, a hacker known arsenic "Department of Peace" gained entree to the information done Okta, an individuality and entree absorption work utilized by the DHS. Around 21,000 records pertain to CBP employees, and ne …

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