# Hacker exposes personal and work details of 40,000 US security staff

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/hacker-stole-personnel-data-about-thousands-of-homeland-security-employees-including-cbp-and-ice-agents/
- Published: 2026-10-28T22:07:58+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-28T22:13:30+00:00
- Original publisher: TechCrunch
- Original article: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/28/hacker-stole-personnel-data-about-thousands-of-homeland-security-employees-including-cbp-and-ice-agents/
- Topics: Cybersecurity, Technology

## Key points

- More than 40,000 Homeland Security employee records were published online.
- The dataset includes staff from CBP, ICE and CISA.
- Records appear to have been taken around mid-August.

## Summary

The newly added coverage reports that a hacker published records on more than 40,000 US Department of Homeland Security employees after a breach earlier this year. The leak includes staff from border and immigration agencies, cybersecurity teams and senior officials, exposing a partial picture of the department’s workforce and operations.

The records reportedly came from an Okta sign-in system and include names, job titles, work contact details, office locations and IT access information. About 21,000 entries relate to Customs and Border Protection, around 10,000 to Immigration and Customs Enforcement and its investigations unit, and just under 1,000 to CISA. Timestamps suggest the data was taken around mid-August; the total is about one-fifth of the department’s 220,000 staff, and a sample was verified against an offline database copy.

## Coverage

- [TechCrunch: Hacker exposes personal and work details of 40,000 US security staff](https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/28/hacker-stole-personnel-data-about-thousands-of-homeland-security-employees-including-cbp-and-ice-agents/)
- [The Verge: A hacker stole more than 40,000 DHS employee records](https://www.theverge.com/tech/1021528/ice-cbp-data-leak)

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