The alleged breach, which was first reported by non-profit Distributed Denial of Secrets, was said to have occurred on the DHS’ Office of Industry Partnership.
“Details on ICE and DHS contracts with over 6,000 different entities, ranging from private businesses to government agencies and even dozens of universities. Some of the notable firms include Anduril, HBGary, L3Harris, Microsoft, Oracle, Palantir and Raytheon,” the non-profit said.
The Department of Peace released a statement explaining its motivation for the DHS and ICE breach.
“I’m disclosing a list containing the details of 6,681 organizations that applied for contracts with the US Department of Homeland Security,” the group said.
“This data was taken from the Office of Industry Partnership.
“Why hack the DHS? I can think of a couple Pretti Good reasons!
“I’m releasing this because the DHS is killing us and people deserve to know which companies support them and what they’re working on.”
According to the listing, data includes company names, company URLs, employee names and titles, business and potentially personal addresses, staff phone numbers and email addresses, tax ID numbers, including employer ID numbers and potentially SSNs, other government contractor IDs, such as UEI numbers and CAGE codes, as well as internal DHS staff comments regarding data updates.
“Additionally, I’ve included a second list containing information on which of these companies won contracts and what those contracts were for,” the Department of Peace said.
“The information in this second list may be less sensitive, but it doesn’t appear in the public section of https://oip.dhs.gov as far as I could tell.
“I’ve included the second list for reference and comparison to the first. Both are likely incomplete.
“There are some entities in this list that I take no issue with, such as NASA, the various universities, water safety organizations, etc.
“However, people deserve to know about them, too, and these entities likewise deserve to know that they’re part of the breach.
“Furthermore, there are also details from government agencies, including the FBI and the DHS itself.
“What you do with this data is entirely up to you. Thanks for checking this out!”
The cyber attack is in response to DHS and ICE’s mass immigration campaign through which a number of people have been detained and injured without due process, and a number of people have died.
Daniel Croft