--- title: Leak exposes 41,000 Homeland Security staff, including... description: A leak now exposes records on more than 41,000 Department of Homeland Security employees and contractors. The data, published by DDoSecrets as 'Icepick',... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/leak-exposes-41-000-homeland-security-staff-including-ice-and-cbp-agents-cqjgzlcwh twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Leak exposes 41,000 Homeland Security staff, including ICE and CBP agents | daily.dev og:description: A leak now exposes records on more than 41,000 Department of Homeland Security employees and contractors. The data, published by DDoSecrets as 'Icepick',... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/leak-exposes-41-000-homeland-security-staff-including-ice-and-cbp-agents-cqjgzlcwh og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/cqjGZlCwH.png og:image:alt: Leak exposes 41,000 Homeland Security staff, including ICE and CBP agents og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Leak exposes 41,000 Homeland Security staff, including ICE and CBP agents **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A leak now exposes records on more than 41,000 Department of Homeland Security employees and contractors. The data, published by DDoSecrets as 'Icepick', includes names, emails, phone numbers, job titles and office locations for ICE, CBP and other staff. A group called Department of Peace says it took the data from DHS's Okta single sign-on system; Okta says it is secure and has no evidence its data or systems were compromised. The records include over 55,000 internal permission groups, some appearing to reference tools like Palantir's Falcon, PenLink and face-recognition app Mobile Fortify. DHS filed a takedown notice through ZeroFox, and Bluesky is blocking links to the archive. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How many DHS employee records were exposed in the Okta-linked data leak? More than 41,000 records of Department of Homeland Security employees and contractors were exposed, covering about a seventh of the DHS workforce. CBP accounts for more than half, with roughly 21,000 CBP staff and nearly 6,600 ICE staff per BBC's count, plus about 6,200 USCIS and nearly 1,000 CISA records. _Teams managing SSO and identity providers can track incidents like this Okta-linked breach on daily.dev._ ### What tools were referenced in the leaked DHS permission group names? Leaked DHS permission groups referenced surveillance and AI tools including Palantir's Falcon platform, PenLink (which analyzes phone records and social media), a wiretap program, and AI systems like ChatGPT, Gemini and Copilot. A 'Grok.com' group included eight DHS technology officials, and over 200 CBP accounts belonged to a group referencing the Mobile Fortify face recognition app. _Developers evaluating surveillance and AI tooling risk follow stories like this on daily.dev._ ### Did Okta confirm that its systems were breached in the DHS data leak? No, Okta stated it is secure and has no evidence its data or systems were compromised, despite claims by the hacktivist group Department of Peace and DDoSecrets that the data came from the Okta single sign-on system DHS uses. Reuters could not immediately corroborate the Okta claim either. _Anyone relying on Okta for SSO can follow verification of breach claims like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [ICE Is Running One of the Largest Anti-Left Surveillance Ops in US History](https://daily.dev/posts/ice-is-running-one-of-the-largest-anti-left-surveillance-ops-in-us-history-8zwgzxafz) · Hacker News · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [StopICE alerts hacked to sen texts , admins accuse CPB agent](https://daily.dev/posts/stopice-alerts-hacked-to-sen-texts-admins-accuse-cpb-agent-2vueyufdz) · The Register · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [US government says it got hacked — again](https://daily.dev/posts/us-government-says-it-got-hacked-again-portisxb8) · TechCrunch · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [ExfilSquad hackers leak info of over 100,000 UK police officers, staff](https://daily.dev/posts/exfilsquad-hackers-leak-info-of-over-100-000-uk-police-officers-staff-bpluulbsn) · BleepingComputer · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#authentication](https://daily.dev/tags/authentication), [#privacy](https://daily.dev/tags/privacy), [#data-breach](https://daily.dev/tags/data-breach), [#okta](https://daily.dev/tags/okta) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/leak-exposes-41-000-homeland-security-staff-including-ice-and-cbp-agents-cqjgzlcwh) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Leak exposes 41,000 Homeland Security staff, including ICE and CBP agents","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/leak-exposes-41-000-homeland-security-staff-including-ice-and-cbp-agents-cqjgzlcwh","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/leak-exposes-41-000-homeland-security-staff-including-ice-and-cbp-agents-cqjgzlcwh"},"datePublished":"2026-10-29T16:36:08.059Z","dateModified":"2026-10-29T16:43:50.862Z","description":"A leak now exposes records on more than 41,000 Department of Homeland Security employees and contractors. 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