AN UNPRECEDENTED LEAK of Department of Homeland Security records has exposed details of more than 41,000 employees or contractors who work for the department and its constituent agencies. The records include email addresses, phone numbers, and office addresses, but also references to internal systems and sensitive information on undercover and surveillance programs. In all, the leak provides a map of how DHS is organized and how it operates.

The records, which span DHS itself as well as seven component agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement and US Customs and Border Protection, were last updated on August 19, 2026. The transparency nonprofit Distributed Denial of Secrets and cybersecurity researcher and journalist maia arson crimew previewed the data to WIRED, which they say they obtained from a group calling itself the Department of Peace.

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    6,200 belong to US Citizenship and Immigration Services

    Who wants to bet there are 6,200 people who don’t hide who they work for. This group is often working hard to keep things going as they should.

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    It seems to me that ICE would be far better off conducting its business in such a way as to not be worried about being publicly identifiable. Regular police officers are able to do their duties without masks and with the requirement to display their badges, and I dare ICE to claim that regular police don’t do work as dangerous as ICE.

    Obviously undercover work is the exception, but when the entirety of ICE goes around masked, they’d be fools not to expect an overcorrection.

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        Which makes it all the more crazy that ICE feels that it needs additional unaccountability beyond what already covers cops for so much.

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          It’s because they know they’re an authoritarian paramilitary group and they are doing things that they could personally be tried for treason if their side ends up losing, like they always do eventually.

          They don’t want to be personally identifiable if possible, because at any point someone could decide to Kirk them when they’re not in their goon squad at work.

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      Don’t give them too much benefit of the doubt, more than a handful in incidents where standard beat cops are quick to hide their badge numbers when being legally recorded by innocent bystanders

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          maybe we should treat locals like ice not the other way around? also, don’t call them local. they don’t live in the places where they enforce. say municipal.

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    DDoSecrets published the archive, which it calls “Icepick,” on Wednesday. In a press release, DDoSecrets says the data is from DHS’s Okta login system. In a note with the files, the hackers wrote, “They have our information, so it’s only fair that we have theirs.”

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    Hopefully those ICE agents are disappeared…into the forests and oceans, or becoming strange fruits. They are domestic terrorists and human traffickers.

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    Good. Maybe a little unmasking will put some fear into these caustic little shitheads.

    They only behave the way that they do because their superiors have emboldened their basest instincts and shielded them from retaliation .

    If these guys ever thought thay consequences might catch up with them, they’ll be out the door in no time flat.

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      Protect their families and show them the horrible truth of what their significant other/parent is doing? I wholeheartedly agree. Shame them publicly.

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        Like their families aren’t encouraging it. Also, what shame? These people have none. They only hide to try to avoid consequences.

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        no. no, they deserve no mercy. they benefitted from schutzstaffel family. they sowed the wind. now they must be seen to reap, so that next time these guys get killed by family members who want to stay safe.

        we should not terminate our thoughts like fascists. we should not simplify complex issues like fascists. we should not revel in atrocities like fascists. we should not be afraid to be cruel or nasty because fascists are cruel and nasty. that’s part of their game-accuse us of what they are going yo do, so we cannot discuss their offenses without sounding like them. your high school bully did this. we should do to them what they accuse us of. we should do what they’re afraid of, just to scare them. fascists are responsive to fear and violence. its what defines them fear and violence, terror, are necessary tools in putting them down. they must be torn out at the root, social and structural both. you remember how much of a fit they threw after the ‘if you are reading this you’re gay’ bullet struck home? they can’t handle violence directed at them, and it needs to be. Every kind of violence, physical rhetorical and structural.

        the identities they champion must end. theu want a ‘future for white children’?fuck it, lets do a nonviolent white genocide ’kill the cracker save the man’. I’ll start with myself, because I think it would piss a Nazi off.

        or they will come back. my great great great grandmother hid family jewels, the fruits of generations of slaver exploitation, from union soldiers by burying them in sugar and surrounding herself with children, then appealing to their common humanity, saying ‘you wouldn’t take the last bit of sugar from children, would you?’. they kept their land too. the KKK and the daughters of the confederacy brought the white supremacist slave regime regime back after barely twenty years, the Confederate states of america despite never having won a war is the largest empire the world has ever seen today. their families must be punished too, or we will never reclaim the world from them. I’m not sure they all need to be killed, but they must be branded humiliated and dispossessed. their names must become curses.

        the Hitler family ended, nazism became slander, but many Nazis and fascist militants were allowed to live and supported throughout Europe, including the wretched sow birthed of Mussolini’s cum. Europe is going fascist again. but rommel didn’t start an exploiters school after the war, he fucking killed himself. so it took time.

        they care about family. they organize society around their families. their families if not the institution of the nuclear family itself must end as punishment, or this will reoccur. again. maybe one more time after that. I would say endlessly, but the species will be extinct before too long if we don’t get our shit together.

        now if you’ll excuse me: I need to take a big steaming Davis, but then my tummy feels a little queasy so I might be spraying Hitler all over the bowl instead. we’ll see.

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    Oh no! Everyone spread the word so that people know to not look at the data! In fact, save a local copy of it in case you need to show someone what data to avoid looking at 🙂‍↕️

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      There is definitely a computer that is 10,000,000% in NL (and super duper is not anywhere near my home since I don’t live in the Netherlands) that already downloaded a copy released on the DDoSecrets data portal.

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        Thank goodness someone has a copy to protect from prying eyes!

        Remember, security is a team effort! So the more people there are keeping a secure copy of this data, the more secure it will be!

        You know, just to be sure it doesn’t get into the wrong hands 😏