Personal data security

Hackers Made Off With Massive FBI, DHS Employee Database

A rogue hacker group managed to penetrate the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secure network and make off with a database containing the personal information of over nine thousand DHS employees. They allegedly possesses a similar database of over 20,000 FBI employees, both containing names, job titles, email addresses, and phone numbers. The hackers also claim to have acquired “hundreds of gigabytes of data from a Department of Justice (DOJ) computer,” Motherboard reports.

Motherboard obtained a large, random selection of the soon-to-be-leaked data, and attempted to verify its veracity. “Many of the calls went through to their respective voicemail boxes, and the names for their supposed owners matched with those in the database. At one point, Motherboard reached the operations center of the FBI, according to the person on the other end,” Joseph Cox writes for the magazine.