"Why hack the DHS? I can think of a couple Pretti Good reasons! I'm releasing this because the DHS is killing us and people deserve to know which companies support them and what they're working on."
"Since the beginning of the Trump administration, DHS and federal immigration agents with ICE have undertaken a campaign of mass deportations, arresting people with largely no criminal records, and detaining them in overcrowded facilities where critics say they are held in inhumane conditions."
A hacktivist group called Department of Peace claimed responsibility for breaching the Department of Homeland Security and stealing documents. The nonprofit transparency collective DDoSecrets published data revealing contracts between DHS, ICE, and more than 6,000 companies, including major defense contractors like Anduril, L3Harris, and Raytheon, surveillance provider Palantir, and tech companies Microsoft and Oracle. The stolen data originated from DHS's Office of Industry Partnership, which procures technology from the private sector. The hacktivists justified their actions by referencing recent killings of two U.S. citizens by federal agents in Minneapolis and criticizing DHS and ICE's mass deportation campaigns that arrest people with minimal criminal records and detain them in overcrowded facilities. Security researcher Micah Lee organized the leaked data on a searchable website for public access.
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