A hacker claims to have access to names, email addresses, phone numbers and job titles of more than 20,000 Federal Bureau of Investigation employees as well as similar details of more than 9,000 Department of Homeland Security employees. The same hacker claims to have downloaded several hundred GBs of data from a Department of Justice computer but that data hasn’t been published yet.
Motherboard obtained the data and called a large selection of random numbers in the FBI and DHS databases. Many of the calls matched with their respective individuals in the database. The scribe reached out to the Department of Homeland Security and it was told that this was the first time they had heard about this potential breach.
Job titles that are included in the database cover different departmnets, task force officers, technicians, intelligence analysts, language specialists, biologists, special agents and more. The hacker told the scribe that this data was obtained by compromising the email account of a DoJ employee but didn’t reveal how that account was compromised.
Apparently the hacker tried to access the DoJ web portal but when that didn’t work he simply called the relevant department. “So I called up, told them I was new and I didn’t understand how to get past [the portal],” the hacker says, “They asked if I had a token code, I said no, they said that’s fine—just use our one.”
The hacker said he downloaded about 200GB of data out of the 1TB that was available to him, he claims that some of the data in included credit card numbers and military emails. The data of about 9,000 DHS employees has since been leaked and that of the FBI is supposedly going to be dumped online soon as well. There has been no comment on this from DHS so far.
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