The leak website Distributed Denial of Secrets published data on more than 40,000 employees of the Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday, according to a report by Mira Bhakta in The Hill. The Hill identified the group as a nonprofit leaker collective and reported that some of the people in the dataset work in the intelligence community.
A separate report from Reuters, published by The Guardian, said the release includes details about officials working in sensitive fields such as surveillance and human intelligence. The Guardian's account said the group made its announcement on Wednesday and that the release is the third such government data disclosure in the last month.
The Hill reported that Distributed Denial of Secrets did not identify the person who supplied the personnel information. The group referred to that unnamed individual as the "Department of Peace," according to the outlet.
Neither source summary available for this report describes how the records were obtained, and the summaries do not include a statement from the department about the release. Where the two accounts overlap, both describe personnel data covering DHS employees, with The Hill emphasizing intelligence community staff and The Guardian emphasizing officials in surveillance and human intelligence roles.
Sources: The Hill: Website leaks data on over 40,000 DHS employees; The Guardian: Non-profit group leaks data of more than 40,000 homeland security workers.