Hacktivists claim to have hacked Homeland Security to release ICE contract data

A radical of hacktivists calling themselves “Department of Peace” claimed to person hacked the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), leaking allegedly stolen documents online.

On Sunday, the nonprofit transparency corporate DDoSecrets published data relating to contracts betwixt DHS, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and much than 6,000 companies, including defence contractors Anduril, L3Harris, Raytheon, surveillance supplier Palantir, arsenic good arsenic tech giants Microsoft and Oracle. 

The hacktivist said the information comes from the Office of Industry Partnership, a portion wrong DHS that procures exertion from the backstage sector.

DHS and ICE did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

Department of Peace explained their motives successful a document alongside the hack, citing the caller killings of 2 peaceful protesters, U.S. citizens Alex Pretti and Renée Good, earlier this twelvemonth successful Minneapolis by national agents.

“Why hack the DHS? I tin deliberation of a mates Pretti Good reasons! I’m releasing this due to the fact that the DHS is sidesplitting america and radical merit to cognize which companies enactment them and what they’re moving on,” the hackers wrote. 

Since the opening of the Trump administration, DHS and national migration agents with ICE person undertaken a run of wide deportations, arresting radical with mostly nary transgression records, and detaining them successful overcrowded facilities wherever critics say they are held successful inhumane conditions. The wide deportation run has been aided by respective tech companies, with Palantir astatine the forefront.

Security researcher Micah Lee organized the leaked data connected a dedicated website, making the accusation easy searchable. 

The tract shows the sanction of the contractors, the magnitude of wealth they were awarded, arsenic good arsenic interaction information, specified arsenic afloat names, email addresses, and telephone numbers. 

The largest contracts by full wealth awarded included $70 cardinal for Cyber Apex Solutions, a institution that claims connected its barebones website to beryllium “focused connected filling the information gaps of captious infrastructure” successful the U.S.; and $59 cardinal for Science Applications International Corporation, which provides AI services for authorities agencies. Underwriters Laboratories was awarded $29 cardinal to supply testing, certification, and marketplace quality to customers.

Cyber Apex Solution, SAIC, and Underwriters Laboratories did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.