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Department of Peace

Also known asDepartment of Peace

Department of Peace is a self-described hacktivist operation/group that claimed to have compromised U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) systems and leaked allegedly stolen documents/records online. Reporting states the leaked dataset purportedly originated from DHS’s Office of Industry Partnership and was published/hosted by the transparency collective Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets), with a separate GitHub page created by security researcher Micah Lee to organize and make the records searchable (including sorting by contract amount). The group’s claimed objective was to expose companies supporting U.S. immigration enforcement (ICE), and it framed the intrusion/leak as retaliation connected to the deaths of protesters Alex Pretti and Renée Good in Minneapolis. The leaked materials were described as contractor/contract records tied to DHS and ICE, covering over 6,000 organizations (including a claim of 6,681 applicants), with separate files for applicants and awardees. The exposed data reportedly included company and employee contact details (names, titles, addresses, phone numbers, emails), contractor identifiers (e.g., UEI and CAGE codes), and tax identifiers (including potential SSNs), creating risks of doxxing, fraud, and targeted attacks. Entities referenced in the leaked records reportedly included major technology and defense contractors such as Microsoft, Oracle, Palantir, Raytheon, Anduril, and L3Harris; notable contract allocations highlighted in reporting included Cyber Apex Solutions (~$70M) and SAIC (~$59M). At the time of reporting, DHS had not publicly confirmed, debunked, or validated the intrusion claims, and it was unclear whether the dataset resulted from a single breach or was compiled from multiple sources.

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