Data on more than 41,000 US Department of Homeland Security workers published

The non-profit organisation Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets) has published records of more than 41,000 employees and contractors of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and seven of its agencies, according to Security Boulevard, which cites an analysis by WIRED magazine. An agency report carried by Demócrata, citing public radio NPR, speaks of about 40,000 employees.

According to Security Boulevard, the records include names, email addresses, phone numbers, offices, job titles, reporting lines and internal permission groups, and were last updated in August 2026. More than 21,000 belong to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and about 10,000 to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to the WIRED analysis cited by that outlet.

The DHS said it is aware of a possible breach and is investigating it while taking steps to protect its employees, according to Security Boulevard. A group calling itself “Department of Peace” claims to have obtained the data through Okta, the sign-in service; Okta said it has no evidence that its systems or data have been compromised, according to the same outlet.

It is not known how or when the data was obtained or who is behind the group, and the figures by agency have not been independently confirmed. We have not been able to open a DHS statement.