| Date | Title | Description |
| Sign up to see | Sign up to see | Sign up to see |
| Oct 30, 2026 | $38.4 bn market cap: DHS Data leak details - Okta says its core systems not compromised | All you need about company | A data leak involving more than 40,000 US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees has raised questions about the security of sensitive government information, with the nonprofit group behind the disclosure claiming that the data was... |
| Oct 29, 2026 | Hackers leak data on 41,000 Homeland Security workers, exposing undercover ICE agents and surveillance operations | Key Highlights
41,000+ DHS workers exposed: Leaked records include employee names, cellphone numbers, email addresses, office locations, and job titles.
Undercover agents identified: The data reveals personnel connected to ICE, CBP, surveil... |
| Apr 9, 2026 | Massive Data Breach Exposes 337K LAPD-Linked Records | Image: Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times
A digital vault door has been blown wide open in Los Angeles.
A massive data breach has ripped through the city’s legal infrastructure, spilling 7.7 terabytes of highly sensitive police records tied ... |
| Mar 24, 2026 | Millions of Anonymous Student and Crime Tips Exposed in Major Data Breach | Image: Daria Glakteeva/Unsplash
What was meant to stay hidden may no longer be.
A massive trove of sensitive data tied to anonymous crime and student safety tips was reportedly exposed, raising new concerns about whether such systems can tr... |
| Mar 3, 2026 | Hacktivists Claim DHS Breach, Leak 6,600+ ICE Contractor Records | Image: Jacob Barone's Law Enforcement Photography's photo/Flickr
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) may have been breached… with thousands of ICE contracts exposed.
A self-described hacktivist group called “Department of Pe... |
| May 27, 2025 | Papua New Guinea Streisands Sketchy ‘Involuntary Resettlement’ Efforts By Threatening DDoSecrets | Hamilton Vagi, head of Papua New Guinea’s National Cyber Security Centre, apparently never learned the first rule of trying to bury embarrassing information: threatening journalists just makes them dig in harder. And quite often leads to St... |
| Oct 30, 2024 | National Politics | Election deniers use Telegram to rally poll watchers in swing states | Telegram’s press office didn’t respond to a request for comment. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency declined to comment. The Trump campaign referred queries to the Republican National Committee, which said that the RN... |
| Feb 2, 2024 | A startup allegedly “hacked the world.” Then came the censorship—and now the backlash. | Enlarge
WIRED staff/Getty Images reader comments 18
Hacker-for-hire firms like NSO Group and Hacking Team have become notorious for enabling their customers to spy on vulnerable members of civil society. But as far back as a decade ago in I... |
| Feb 1, 2024 | Sorry Appin, We’re Not Taking Down Our Article About Your Attempts To Silence Reporters | Back in December, we wrote about Appin. We were not writing about the reports (of which there have been many) that the organization that started as a sort of cybersecurity training school, but morphed into a kind of “hack-for-hire” scheme w... |
| Dec 12, 2023 | For Some Reason, LA Drug Cops Received Intelligence, Training On ‘Muslim Extremists’ From The Israeli Military | A few years ago, hacktivist group Anonymous liberated a ton of documents from law enforcement agencies all over the world. These were published by transparency activists DDoS (Distributed Denial of Secrets). Journalists and other activists ... |
| Aug 26, 2023 | A Brazilian phone spyware was hacked and victims’ devices ‘deleted’ from server | A Portuguese-language spyware called WebDetetive has been used to compromise more than 76,000 Android phones in recent years across South America, largely in Brazil. WebDetetive is also the latest phone spyware company in recent months to h... |
| Jun 27, 2023 | LetMeSpy, a phone tracking app spying on thousands, says it was hacked | A hacker has stolen the messages, call logs and locations intercepted by a widely used phone monitoring app called LetMeSpy, according to the company that makes the spyware.
The phone monitoring app, which is used to spy on thousands of peo... |
| Jan 21, 2023 | A hack at ODIN Intelligence exposes a huge trove of police raid files | Detailed tactical plans for imminent police raids, confidential police reports with descriptions of alleged crimes and suspects, and a forensic extraction report detailing the contents of a suspect’s phone. These are some of the files in a ... |
| Sep 29, 2022 | Roskomnadzor Has Become Putin’s Personal Powerful Surveillance Network | Russia’s Roskomnadzor never used to be a powerful government thug. It used to be almost nothing at all. It was an afterthought — a regulatory agency created to cover things hardly anyone considered to be important. It was formed in 2008 and... |
| Mar 11, 2022 | Anonymous Hacks Russia’s Roscomnadzor Site-Blocking Agency | For many years we’ve been reporting on efforts by Russian authorities to restrict access to internet content deemed ‘dangerous’ by the state.
Our focus has been on the relatively tight niche of copyright issues. These typically involve Russ... |
| Nov 8, 2021 | Transparency Activists Dump 1.8 Terabytes Of Police Helicopter Surveillance Footage | Let's just get right into this and let Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoS) harvest some accolades and encouragement to continue to deploy its particular brand of intrusive transparency on historically secretive entities. |
| Nov 8, 2021 | Transparency Activists Dump 1.8 Terabytes Of Police Helicopter Surveillance Footage | Let’s just get right into this and let Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoS) harvest some accolades and encouragement to continue to deploy its particular brand of intrusive transparency on historically secretive entities. |
| Oct 5, 2021 | Hacked Data Exposes Law Enforcement Officers Who Joined Far-Right Oath Keepers Group | Some more unsettling news about law enforcement's close relationship to (or at least professional tolerance of) far-right groups linked to the January 6th raid of the Capitol building has come to light, thanks to transparency activists... |
| Oct 5, 2021 | Hacked Data Exposes Law Enforcement Officers Who Joined Far-Right Oath Keepers Group | Some more unsettling news about law enforcement’s close relationship to (or at least professional tolerance of) far-right groups linked to the January 6th raid of the Capitol building has come to light, thanks to transparency activists Dist... |
| Jun 10, 2021 | EA source code stolen by hacker claiming to sell it online | Enlarge
Getty Images reader comments 86 with 71 posters participating
Share this story
Share on Facebook
Share on Twitter
Share on Reddit
Game-maker Electronic Arts and the Presque Isle Police Department in Maine are responding to an event ... |
| Jun 2, 2021 | Leaked Emails Show Chicago PD Bought, Deployed Drones Using Off-The-Books Forfeiture Funds | Thanks to the efforts of transparency activists Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoS), residents of Chicago are learning more about the activities of their sworn protectors, the Chicago Police Department. Stuff the PD never wanted the public... |
| Jun 2, 2021 | Leaked Emails Show Chicago PD Bought, Deployed Drones Using Off-The-Books Forfeiture Funds | Thanks to the efforts of transparency activists Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoS), residents of Chicago are learning more about the activities of their sworn protectors, the Chicago Police Department. Stuff the PD never wanted the public... |
| May 8, 2021 | Chinese-Americans poured more than $80,000 into a Proud Boy crowdfunder before Jan 6 insurrection | A member of the Proud Boys guards the front stage as another member of the proud boys gives a speech during a rally at Delta Park in Portland, Oregon, on June 26, 2020. Stanton Sharpe/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
Chinese America... |
| Mar 9, 2021 | Gab, a haven for pro-Trump conspiracy theories, has been hacked again | Enlarge
Aurich Lawson reader comments 347 with 128 posters participating, including story author
Share this story
Share on Facebook
Share on Twitter
Share on Reddit
Beleaguered social networking site Gab was breached on Monday, marking the ... |
| Mar 1, 2021 | Trump’s is one of 15,000 Gab accounts that just got hacked | Enlarge
Gab.com reader comments 352 with 145 posters participating
Share this story
Share on Facebook
Share on Twitter
Share on Reddit
The founder of the far-right social media platform Gab said that the private account of former President ... |
| Mar 1, 2021 | The CEO of far-right social media site Gab said it was under attack from 'demon hackers.' The hacker threatened to leak passwords and private messages from 15,000 users. | Gab CEO Andrew Torba said Sunday the right-wing social-media site was under attack by "demon hackers."
The hacker created a dataset of more than 40 million Gab posts, including every private post, Wired reported.
The "hacktiv... |
| Feb 28, 2021 | Gab Social Network Hack: 'Transparency Group' Threatens to Reveal Passwords, Data to Public on Parler-Alternative! | Isaiah Alonzo, Tech Times 28 February 2021, 11:02 pm
(Photo : Gab)
Gab, another social media that call itself "free" and limitless like Parler, was recently hacked by so-called "Transparency Groups" which threatens to re... |
| Feb 22, 2021 | Google has pulled down a propaganda blog backing the military coup in Myanmar after outcry by online activists | Protesters against the Myanmar military coup outside the US Embassy in Yangon on February 20, 2021.
SAI AUNG MAIN/AFP via Getty Images
Google has yanked hosting of a blog promoting propaganda for the Myanmar military's coup.
The blog, ... |
| Feb 22, 2021 | Massive data trove from 120,000 Myanmar companies surface online in Wikileaks-style release | An activist group that advocates for information transparency released a stash of documents, revealing the corporate ownership of around 120,000 registered companies in Myanmar on Saturday. The documents, dubbed “Myanmar Financials,” were m... |
| Feb 20, 2021 | Google has pulled down a propaganda blog backing the military coup in Myanmar after outcry by online activists | Protesters against the Myanmar military coup outside the US Embassy in Yangon on February 20, 2021. SAI AUNG MAIN/AFP via Getty Images
Google has yanked hosting of a blog promoting propaganda for the Myanmar military’s coup.
The blog, named... |
| Aug 24, 2020 | Documents Show Law Enforcement Agencies Are Still Throwing Tax Dollars At Junk Science | Recently, 269 gigabytes of internal law enforcement documents were liberated by hacker collective Anonymous -- and released by transparency activists Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets). The trove contained plenty of sensitive law en... |
| Aug 24, 2020 | Documents Show Law Enforcement Agencies Are Still Throwing Tax Dollars At Junk Science | Recently, 269 gigabytes of internal law enforcement documents were liberated by hacker collective Anonymous — and released by transparency activists Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets). The trove contained plenty of sensitive law enf... |
| Jun 28, 2020 | An embattled group of leakers picks up the WikiLeaks mantle | Enlarge
Getty Images reader comments 56 with 39 posters participating
Share this story
Share on Facebook
Share on Twitter
Share on Reddit
For the past year, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has sat in a London jail awaiting extradition to t... |
| Jun 24, 2020 | Twitter terminates DDoSecrets, falsely claims it may infect visitors | Enlarge
Aurich Lawson / Getty reader comments 111 with 78 posters participating, including story author
Share this story
Share on Facebook
Share on Twitter
Share on Reddit
Four days after leak publisher DDoSecrets circulated private documen... |
| Nov 17, 2019 | Phineas Fisher Offers $100,000 Bounty to Hack Banks and Oil Companies | An infamous vigilante hacker known for their hits on surveillance companies is launching a new kind of bug bounty to reward hacktivists who do public interest hacks and leaks.
The hacker, known as Phineas Fisher, published a new manifesto o... |
| Jan 24, 2019 | Emma Best's New Transparency Project Targets Russian Leaks She Says Wikileaks Refuses To Touch | Turnabout, as they say, is only fair play. |
| Ukraine denies missile strike on Donbas prison; Wagner fighters given front-line duties, UK says | This is CNBC’s live blog tracking developments on the war in Ukraine. See below for the latest updates. |
| Hacktivist group Anonymous is using six top techniques to ‘embarrass’ Russia | Anonymous uses many strategies in its digital fight against Russia, the most effective being hacking into databases and leaking the information online, according to cybersecurity specialist Jeremiah Fowler.
The size of the leaked data will ... |
| Anonymous поширив базу даних про 120 000 військових РФ. Її злили українські хакери | Anonymous поширив базу даних про 120 000 військових РФ. Її злили українські хакери
04 квітня, 2022, 13:50
Майя Ярова
Читати на RU
Організація Anonymous поширила базу даних з інформацією про 120 000 російських військових, які, ймовірно, прий... |
| Anonymous Hacks Russia’s Roscomnadzor Site-Blocking Agency | For many years we’ve been reporting on efforts by Russian authorities to restrict access to internet content deemed ‘dangerous’ by the state.
Our focus has been on the relatively tight niche of copyright issues. These typically involve Russ... |