Hacktivists leaked personal data of over 41,000 U.S. Department of Homeland Security employees.

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A hacktivist group, operating through the leak site Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets), has published a trove of personal data (names, phone numbers, email addresses, and work details) belonging to more than 41,000 employees of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The data includes personnel from agencies such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and potentially undercover agents, and was reportedly obtained through a breach of an Okta single sign-on service.

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The claim is well-supported by multiple credible news organizations (The Guardian, Reuters, CNBC, WIRED, The Washington Post, etc.) all reporting nearly identical details within the past day. The primary source appears to be a dataset posted by DDoSecrets, which journalists have examined. The number of affected employees (~41,000) and the nature of the data are consistently reported, though the exact method of exfiltration (Okta compromise) is attributed to DDoSecrets' claim and has not been independently confirmed by DHS as of the reports. The aggregated/secondary tier reflects that the highlight itself cites a secondary outlet, but the underlying story is robustly corroborated by multiple primary-like journalistic sources.

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