More than three-quarters of IT professionals have seen and kept secret potentially embarrassing information about their colleagues, according to new research conducted by AlienVault™.
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Saturday, 11 October 2025
A hacker plans to dump the apparent names, job titles, email addresses and phone numbers of over 20,000 FBI employees, 9,000 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees, and 200GB of files according to Motherboard. http://motherboard.vice.com/read/hacker-plans-to-dump-alleged-details-of-20000-fbi-9000-dhs-employees Pro-Palestinian comments on the hack, along with DHS employee info, were posted on Twitter according to Motherboard.
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News broke overnight that contact details for more than 10,000 employees of the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security was dumped onto the web Sunday and Monday by anonymous pro-Palestinian hackers. Although the breach was confirmed by a Department of Justice spokesperson, the severity of the hack is so far being played down, with the Departments saying that there is no evidence personal data like dates of birth or social security numbers were compromised.
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