Hackers Say They Have Personal Data of Thousands of NSA and Other Government Officials

An anonymous reader shares a report: A hacking group that recently doxed hundreds of government officials, including from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), has now built dossiers on tens of thousands of U.S. government officials, including NSA employees, a member of the group told 404 Media. The member said the group did this by digging through its caches of stolen Salesforce customer data. The person provided 404 Media with samples of this information, which 404 Media was able to corroborate.

As well as NSA officials, the person sent 404 Media personal data on officials from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), members of the Air Force, and several other agencies.

Not Gonna Pay

[crunchy_one]

TFA is paywalled. No thank you.

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[mic_f]

Eh. Right. Try a more reputable site like archive.is instead.

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[ArchieBunker]

It's paywalled there too.

[Yawn]

[PPH]

As bad as the OPM leaks [wikipedia.org]?

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[Alypius]

At this point, the "P" in "PII" stands for "publicly." Besides, since the OPM hack was supposedly done by a Chinese APT, I was always more worried about what they put in rather than what they took out. What better way to get spies in place than through a legitimate SF-86?

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[PPH]

What better way to get spies in place than through a legitimate SF-86?

Perhaps. On the other hand, there's a lot of background work done to support clearances*. And in some cases, ongoing contact with intelligence case workers, even for an inactive one. I know they are still watching me. Probably waiting for that hot Russian supermodel girlfriend to show up. (I can dream, can't I?)

*Interestingly, I found out about my background checks when a case officer conducted interviews with neighbors. It seems that he selected our neighborhood drunk to talk to. In addition to my wonder

the usual suspects

[Speare]

What megalomaniacal near-trillionaire had a whole squadron of leet hackers hoovering up federal employee records just a few short months ago? I forget. It musta been somebody with pockets 30x deeper than George Soros to tunnel into those boring databases, we should launch an investigation.

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[Ocker3]

Oh but I can't see Any problems with taking all of that information and having a bunch of people not yet out of College be tasked with keeping it secure. They've surely been properly educated on both physical and software security standards when they have one of the world's biggest collections of Government staff data, no questions. Yes? Please?

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[buck-yar]

Any evidence for your paranoid rant? I'm no fan of Musk but why would he do this? Or are you just mad his crew is cutting govt and scapegoating? I'm probably one of his harshest critics but there is nothing to this. Given the list of agencies hacked (ICE...), its probably more likely a leftist. Nice try though.

How the mighty have fallen

[gweihir]

Although I suspect most of the NSA's reputation was just show and not reality.

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[Anonymous Coward]

It was Trump's campaign promise to release the files for a good reason. The offending predators that Epstein facilitated service to are still out there roaming free, possibly still committing offenses, and must be brought to justice. Anyone thinking they can get away with this should be shown they are wrong instead of emboldening them.

Root cause: just part of current lowgrade WWIII

[Plugh]

Hackernews Aug 12 2025 on the Salesforce hack: Cybercrime Groups ShinyHunters, Scattered Spider Join Forces in Extortion Attacks on Businesses [thehackernews.com]

I bet anything China, Russia, and Iran are those so-called cybercrime groups. Check this BlackHat talk [youtube.com] about catching the (at the time) biggest ever card fraud guy. Russian oligarch son. Guess what, he was one of those returned to Russia in an exchange with the Trump admin as part of "peace negotiations".

Cyberattacks are part of the low level war they are also waging

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[Plugh]

meh missed making link about prisoner exchange [wikipedia.org]