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Hackers Leak DHS Staff Directory, Claim FBI Is Next (csoonline.com)

Posted by timothy on from the soon-we'll-leak-your-mailing-address dept.

itwbennett writes: On Sunday, the name, title, email address, and phone number of more than 9,000 DHS employees, with titles ranging from engineers, to security specialists, program analysts, InfoSec and IT, all the way up to director level was posted on Twitter. 'The account went on to claim that an additional data dump focused on 20,000 FBI employees was next,' writes CSO's Steve Ragan. The hacker told Motherboard that the data was obtained by "compromising the email account of a DoJ employee, although he would not elaborate on how that account was accessed in the first place."

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  1. Sad state of affairs by daq+man · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't know which is worse, that outfits like the DHS and FBI have such lousy cyber security that this can happen or that someone thinks that publishing this stuff is helping their cause.

    1. Re:Sad state of affairs by U2xhc2hkb3QgU3Vja3M · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I think they're doing this to shame the DHS and FBI and at the same time show the world that this kind of thing is possible even without government-approved backdoors.

  2. Re:Muslim hackers or just thoughtless idiots by MitchDev · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If American citizens can;t have privacy, then neither can the government.

  3. This is so sad by ITRambo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Homeland Security seems to be anything but secure itself. Don't they have a huge budget for things like...security?

  4. Re:Hillary's server? by edtice1559 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    She paid a private organization to secure her server. And everybody knows that private industry is better at everything than government. I think this just goes to show that the government should privatize email! Why are they criticizing Hillary for adopting one of their sacred policies?