A group calling itself the Department of Peace has released information on more than 41,000 Department of Homeland Security staff, including immigration agents, BBC reports. BBC
BBC NewsDetails of thousands of US immigration agents leaked in major hackA group called the Department of Peace released information on more than 41,000 DHS staff.
How should agencies weigh the safety of staff against the public's interest in knowing who enforces the law?
Update: DHS has asked the Icelandic host FlokiNET to take down the site publishing the employee data; FlokiNET says it refused, but the domain's registrar suspended it and the data has since moved to a different domain, according to Al Jazeera.
Al JazeeraTrump administration attempts to take down leak of ICE personnel dataAn Icelandic web company, FlokiNET, has defended the data's publication as satisfying a 'legitimate' public interest.
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