Hackers Expose Names and Contact Details of More Than 41,000 Homeland Security Workers, Including ICE Agents

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 (TodayViralUSA) — Hacktivists have published names, work contact details and job assignments for more than 41,000 Department of Homeland Security employees and contractors, including staff tied to immigration enforcement and undercover operations, in what researchers describe as one of the largest exposures of the department’s workforce.

The data was released Wednesday by the transparency group Distributed Denial of Secrets, which calls the archive “Icepick.” The group said it received the files from a hacking collective calling itself the Department of Peace, which says it took the records from an Okta single sign-on system DHS employees and contractors use to log in to internal systems.

What was exposed

According to reporting by WIRED, NPR, the BBC and SecurityWeek, the records include names, work email addresses and phone numbers, job titles, office locations and lists of the internal systems each account can access. WIRED said the records were last updated on Aug. 19, 2026.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection staff make up more than half of the records. About 10,000 are tied to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, roughly a third of them in its investigative arm, Homeland Security Investigations. WIRED counted about 6,200 records from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and nearly 1,000 linked to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

The BBC reported that the files also reference dozens of previously unknown operation names, the agents who worked on them and some of the technology they used. Altogether, the data covers roughly a seventh of DHS’s workforce.

Who is behind it

In a note with the files, the hackers wrote that “they have our information, so it’s only fair that we have theirs,” and said the leak was a protest against DHS deportation operations. A searchable online version of the data was built by Swiss hacker and researcher maia arson crimew.

DDoSecrets co-founder Emma Best said the leak identifies officials who oversee covert and undercover operations and key personnel in the department’s deportation programs, rather than serving as a directory of every employee.

DHS and Okta respond

DHS said in a statement that it is “aware of a potential breach” and is working to address it, adding that it is taking steps to make sure employees are protected.

Okta disputed that its own platform was breached. “We are aware of this report. Okta is secure, and we have no evidence our data or systems were compromised,” a company spokesperson told WIRED and SecurityWeek.

The exposure is particularly sensitive because DHS keeps the identities of many of its officers, including ICE agents, confidential. The BBC said it is the third time in recent weeks that a U.S. government agency has been hit by a significant hack or leak.