New Actor: Department of Peace Exposes 41,000 DHS Employees

A hacktivist group calling itself Department of Peace released a database of more than 41,000 Department of Homeland Security employees and contractors. The cache was posted on the leak site Distributed Denial of Secrets as a searchable dataset called Icepick. It lists names, agencies, office locations, work emails and phone numbers, and managers.

The records identify personnel assigned to surveillance, special operations, and undercover work, including ICE agents. They include the locations of ICE and CBP facilities and references to internal systems and groups tied to wiretap programs, Palantir software, and xAI's Grok chatbot. Some entries note specific assignments inside DHS units.

The data was taken from a DHS Okta single sign-on system, though Okta denies a breach of its own network. The release puts employees' contact details and internal affiliations in public view at once, where they were not accessible this way before.

AI-synthesized from multiple reported sources