Massive Leak Exposes 41,000 Homeland Security Workers—Including Undercover ICE Agents
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Two permission groups, named “Executive Leadership” and “AI Access,” appear to list people given exceptions to DHS’s web filter, which blocks some websites for employees. They contain the same 13 people, including former DHS head Kristi Noem; Antoine McCord, the recently departed DHS chief information officer who has returned to defense tech company Anduril; Philip Hegseth, listed as a senior adviser to the DHS secretary and the younger brother of defense secretary Pete Hegseth; and Jayce Krachenfels, listed as a policy adviser, who previously worked as a regional field director for Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign, according to his LinkedIn profile. Noem, McCord, Hegseth, and Krachenfels did not respond to a request for comment
Other groups named in the leak reference AI tools, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and Microsoft’s Copilot. One, called “Grok.com,” includes eight DHS technology officials, including the department’s former chief information officer and chief data officer.
“If authentic and current, this is an extraordinarily valuable intelligence resource for those seeking to penetrate DHS,” says Alexander Leslie, a national security expert at the threat intelligence company Recorded Future. “This dataset becomes way more valuable when correlated with previously compromised information, commercial data, and other intelligence collections. An adversary could spend months exploiting these relationships to identify vulnerable personnel, develop convincing impersonation attempts, or compromise ongoing investigations.”
More than 700 accounts are associated with a group apparently referencing Signal, the encrypted messaging app, nearly all belonging to CBP personnel. More than 200 CBP accounts belong to a group referencing Mobile Fortify, a face-recognition app that immigration agents use to identify people. The group includes field supervisors, special response team operators, and tactical and intelligence agents. About half are in Texas, California, and Arizona.
Roughly 1,300 ICE enforcement accounts have been created since July 4, 2025, when Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which funded the hiring of 10,000 new ICE Enforcement and Removal officers by the end of 2025.
Nearly 20 accounts appear to belong to personnel with the Department of Defense, which the administration styles as the Department of War; eight are in a group titled “ICE Tip Line DOW Surge.” About 170 accounts are listed as providing “military processing support” at ICE facilities, and 35 others explicitly identify National Guard members.
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