A hacktivist group has claimed to have broken into systems belonging to the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and exposed sensitive files online.
The group, with the self-awarded name “The Department of Peace”, stole data from the Office of Industry Partnership that contained contracts between DHS, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and over 6,000 private companies. Among the companies contracted to work alongside DHS and ICE were Anduril, L3Harris, Raytheon, Palantir, Microsoft, and Oracle.
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