Claims extracted
18
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
11%
2 of 18 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
not political
takes no side on a contested political question
Publisher signals
67/100
The Guardian's corrections and
hedging, across everything collected from it. Not a measure of accuracy.
Outlets on this story
5
Politics
Same framing elsewhere
1
articles that frame the event the way this one does
The leak website Distributed Denial of Secrets said on Wednesday it has released data on more than 40,000 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees, including details about officials working in sensitive fields such as surveillance and human intelligence.
asserted
it → say → surveillance
DHS did not immediately return a message seeking comment.
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DHS → return → comment
The disclosure – which the non-profit data transparency group says draws on information obtained by an entity calling itself “Department of Peace” – is the third government data leak to have made headlines in the past month.
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group → say → month
In September, the hacking group ShinyHunters claimed the theft of a massive trove of data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, including sensitive job details and medical information from thousands of bureau employees.
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group → claim → employees
Last week, the defense department was hit with a class action lawsuit following a breach that exposed data on millions of current and former military personnel.
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that → hit → personnel
The DHS data includes names, phone numbers and email addresses of employees from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Protection, Homeland Security Investigations, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and other DHS component agencies.
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data → include → Enforcement
Also included in the data were job titles and email groups, which, among other details, showed which agents were assigned to special operations, surveillance jobs, computer forensics and undercover work.
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agents → include → operations
In a statement, Emma Best, a Distributed Denial of Secrets co-founder, said the hacktivist known as “maia arson crimew” developed a search tool for the data that would allow the public to browse it.
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public → say → it
Best said the tool would “replace anonymity with accountability” and empower journalists, guide public records requests and boost congressional oversight.
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tool → say → oversight
The Department of Peace did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but in a statement included with the data, it said that DHS employees “have our information, so it’s only fair that we have theirs” and that it hoped the data “can be used to limit further harm by the DHS and supports all efforts in that direction”.
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data → respond → direction
The Department of Peace in March claimed responsibility for hacking DHS and posting documents related to contracts with outside vendors.
Best’s statement said Department of Peace harvested the data from the Okta sign-on service used by DHS.
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Department → claim → DHS
Reuters could not immediately corroborate the claim.
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Reuters → corroborate → claim
Okta said in response to a Reuters query: “Okta is secure, and we have no evidence our data or systems were compromised.”
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data → say → evidence
Reuters could not immediately verify the authenticity of the entire data trove but it was able to match personal information of about six DHS employees named in the leak to credit bureau records and breach data carried by the dark web intelligence platform District 4 Labs.
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it → verify → platform
In other cases, Reuters called three DHS employees directly and was able to confirm their phone numbers and other details.
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Reuters → call → numbers
One said it was the first they had heard of a breach.
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they → say → breach
In several cases, the data tracked information available on DHS employees’ LinkedIn profiles.
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data → track → profiles
But in others, the data revealed nonpublic data about internal DHS organization charts or previously undisclosed programs or operations.
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data → reveal → charts
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