Overview
- Distributed Denial of Secrets published the archive called Icepick on Wednesday, indexing roughly 41,191 DHS employees, about 55,000 internal groups and thousands of office locations and assignments.
- A group calling itself the Department of Peace provided the files and said they came from an Okta single sign‑on service; Okta says it has found no evidence its systems were breached.
- The dataset lists names, work emails, phone numbers, job titles, manager relationships, internal permission groups and operation names, which reporters independently verified in portions of the archive.
- Researchers and publishers warn the records could expose undercover officers and enable impersonation of supervisors, while transparency advocates say the contact data will aid FOIA requests and oversight.
- A searchable tool built by maia arson crimew was taken offline by its registrar but the archive and source code remain available through mirrors and downloads, and the leak follows several 2026 federal personnel exposures that have raised policy and security questions.