By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
Hackers unveiled the contact information for 20,000 FBI employees Monday evening, a day after releasing similar data on nearly 10,000 Homeland Security employees.
The information was released on Twitter, via @DotGovs, indicating the hacks are in retaliation for the U.S. government’s ties to Israel.
“When will the US government realize we won’t stop until they cut relations with Israel..” the tweet reads.
The hackers broke into a Justice Department database.
The information on FBI and Homeland Security officials contained their names, titles, phone numbers and e-mail addresses.
FBI and DHS info is dropped and that’s all we came to do, so now its time to go, bye folks!#FreePalestine
— penis (@DotGovs) February 8, 2016
The Justice Department, which is investigating, said private information, such as Social Security numbers, didn’t appear to be breached, CNN reports.
“The department is looking into the unauthorized access of a system operated by one of its components containing employee contact information,” said Justice Department spokesman Peter Carr. “This unauthorized access is still under investigation; however, there is no indication at this time that there is any breach of sensitive personally identifiable information. The department takes this very seriously and is continuing to deploy protection and defensive measures to safeguard information. Any activity that is determined to be criminal in nature will be referred to law enforcement for investigation.”
