Hacker Leaks information of 30,000 FBI and DHS Employees

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An Unknown hacker who promised to release the personal information on government employees has
dum online a list of nearly 20,000 Federal bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents and 9,000 Department of Homelan Secutity(DHS) officers.

Through the authenticity of the information has not been verified, at least, some of the leaked data appears be legitimate.

Here's What the Hacker Leaked:


The Hacker leaked first round of data belonging to roughly 9,000 DHS employees on Sunday, Which was followed by the release of 20,000 FBI agents information on Monday.

The hacker, who goes on Twitter by the username of @DotGovs, published the supposed data on an encrypted text-sharing website, including:

  • Names
  • Job titles
  • Phone Numbers
  • Email Addresses
The Reason Behind the Hack

The message at the top of the data dump includes the hashtag "#FreePalestine" and reads "Long Live
Palestine, Long Live Gaza: This is for Palestine, Ramallah, West Bank, Gaza, This is for the child that is searching for an answer."

Although it's unclear how much of the hacked data may have been publicly available, the hacker told Motherboard that he had downloaded 200GB of data, out of 1TB total available to him.

If this come true, the information that has been leaked so far would just be a small percentage of what the hacker has in its box.

How the Hacker did it?

The hacker claimed to have compromised US Department of Justice(DoJ) email account and gained access to the department's Intranet. Then he allegedly downloaded the information of over 20,000 FBI officers, roughly 9,000 DHS employees and an undisclosed number of DoJ staffers.

The Hacker also claimed to have some military emails and credit card numbers belonging to federal employees but provided neither proof nor indication that he intended to release then too.

In October, a teenage hacker who goes by "Cracka" carrried out a similar hack and targeted several high-profile government employees, including the CIA director JOHN BRENNAN, the US spy chief JAMES CLAPPER  the FBI Deputy Director MARK GIULIANO and others. 

DoJ Downplayed the Impact of Hacking 

"This unauthorized access is still under investigation; however, there is no indication at this time that there is any branch of sensitive personally identifiable information,"a DOJ spokesman said in a statement to the Guardian.

The hacked data posted anonymously on an encrypted Cryptobin website was reviewed by the Guardian, which found that some of the data from the DHS list are outdated, and some listed individual have not worked for DHS in years.  



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