Hacktivists Dox 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol Staff as Digital Anti‑ICE Campaign Grows

Axios reports that a hacker or insider last week leaked a trove of sensitive personal information on roughly 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees — including about 2,000 frontline enforcement agents — to a site called ICE List, in what appears to be the largest known breach of DHS staff data to date. The leak, coming on the heels of ICE’s fatal shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis and nationwide protests over mass deportation raids, is part of a broader shift toward U.S.-based 'strategic hacktivism' targeting the surveillance tools ICE uses under President Trump’s $75 billion enforcement buildup. Activists have built their own counter‑surveillance infrastructure since 2020, mapping Flock Safety cameras, flagging Bluetooth signals from law‑enforcement devices, and crowdsourcing raid locations, while loose hacker collectives like 'The Com' have previously dumped data on hundreds of DHS officials. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem has condemned the doxing and vowed prosecutions, and the article details how ICE is asking courts for sweeping subpoena power to unmask anonymous social‑media accounts tracking agents, as three women already face federal indictments for livestreaming an agent to his home and posting his address. The standoff underscores a rapidly escalating information war: a heavily surveilled deportation apparatus backed by Palantir and Israeli spyware firms is now facing a decentralized adversary willing to weaponize leaks and real‑time tracking, with serious implications for agent safety, civil liberties, and how far the government can go to pierce online anonymity.