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Leak exposes 41,000 DHS staff, including undercover ICE agents
Contact details and internal group names tied to surveillance programmes were exposed.
- Organisation
- US Department of Homeland Security
- Disclosed
- 28 October 2026
- Affected
- 41,000
- Data
- Staff contacts, office addresses, group names
- Attacker
- Unknown
- Severity
- critical
- Region
- Global
- Source
- Wired ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “Leak exposes 41,000 DHS staff, including undercover ICE agents”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 28 Oct 2026. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2026-10-28-us-department-of-homeland-security-breach/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: Wired, https://www.wired.com/story/massive-leak-exposes-41000-homeland-security-workers-including-undercover-ice-agents/.
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