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Leak site publishes data on over 40,000 DHS staff, including immigration agents

Coverage spectrum

Covered by 4 outlets, mostly center (75%).

4 articles in total. The spectrum counts each outlet once and leaves opinion out. How we measure bias

Straight Arrow News, The Hill, BBC News and a Reuters report run by The Guardian say the Distributed Denial of Secrets website published data on more than 40,000 Department of Homeland Security employees on Wednesday. BBC News says the files include names, work addresses and phone numbers of staff at Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, along with descriptions of their work. BBC News says the material was put online by a group calling itself the “Department of Peace”, working with the hacker maia crimew. The Hill reports that DDoSecrets did not identify the source of the data. DHS did not immediately respond to requests for comment. BBC News and The Guardian report that this is the third government data leak or hack in recent weeks.

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What happened

Key points

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Data on more than 40,000 Department of Homeland Security employees was published online on Wednesday.
Reported byLeft1Center3See the outletsHide the outlets
Left
The Guardian
Center
Straight Arrow News, BBC News, The Hill
The Distributed Denial of Secrets website published the data.
Reported byLeft1Center2See the outletsHide the outlets
Left
The Guardian
Center
BBC News, The Hill
The published records include names, work addresses and phone numbers of staff, including agents at ICE and CBP.
One outletBBC News· Center
The person who supplied the data has not been identified, according to The Hill.
One outletThe Hill· Center
DHS did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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Left
The Guardian
Center
BBC News
This is the third government data leak or hack in recent weeks, according to the reports.
Reported byLeft1Center1See the outletsHide the outlets
Left
The Guardian
Center
BBC News

What is contested

Where accounts differ

Points the coverage does not agree on, and who says what.

The data was obtained through a hack or breach.
Straight Arrow News describes a breach by hackers and BBC News uses the word hack, while The Hill and the Reuters report run by The Guardian describe a leak published by a non-profit collective without saying how the data was obtained.

How each side tells it

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All sides report that DDoSecrets published data on more than 40,000 DHS employees on Wednesday. Center outlets stress the breach and exposed identities; the left report, a Reuters piece run by The Guardian, stresses the leak group and the third government data leak in a month.

the left
1 outlet
This is a Reuters report run by The Guardian under its own headline, which frames it as a non-profit group leaking data on homeland security workers.
Non-profit group leaks data of more than 40,000 homeland security workers
The GuardianLeftAll left-leaning headlines
the center
3 outlets
Center headlines stress the scale of the breach and exposed agents’ identities, with Straight Arrow News casting DHS as having shielded them and BBC News and The Hill naming the leak or hack.
Details of thousands of US immigration agents leaked in major hack
BBC NewsCenterAll center headlines
the right
No coverage yet
No right-leaning outlet that Mantle follows has covered this story yet. That absence is part of the picture.

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No loaded words in its own voice.
Center2
steadfastly refusedShielded by DHS
Right
Has not covered this story.

In the outlets’ own words

Loaded verb
steadfastly refusedMore neutral: has declined
“Steadfastly refused” attributes a deliberate, unyielding stance to DHS; the coverage supports only that DHS has declined to identify agents.
…of hackers on Wednesday did what the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has steadfastly refused to do: expose the identities of thousands of federal immigration agents.
Used byStraight Arrow News (Center)
Loaded verb
Shielded by DHSMore neutral: Identities of immigration agents exposed in data breach
“Shielded” asserts a motive for DHS withholding agents’ names, which the facts in the coverage do not establish.
Shielded by DHS, immigration agents’ identities exposed in massive data breach
Used byStraight Arrow News (Center)

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What each side leads with and what it leaves out. Open a side to read its headlines.

From the left

1 outlet

Leads with

the non-profit group’s role
third government data disclosure in a month
sensitive fields such as surveillance and human intelligence

Leaves out

names, work addresses and phone numbers of staff

Reported by other sides, not found in this side’s coverage.

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The GuardianLeftReuters report
Non-profit group leaks data of more than 40,000 homeland security workers
Information released by Distributed Denial of Secrets is the third such government data disclosure in the last month The leak website Distributed Denial of Secrets said on Wednesday it has released data on more than 40,000 Department ⁠of Homeland Security (DHS) employees, …
1 hr agoRead at The Guardian (opens in a new tab)

From the center

3 outlets

Leads with

scale of the data, over 40,000 staff
exposure of agents’ names and addresses
hackers and the leak group

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The HillCenter
Website leaks data on over 40,000 DHS employees
Nonprofit leaker collective Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets) published data Wednesday for over 40,000 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees, some of whom are working in the intelligence community. …
1 hr agoRead at The Hill (opens in a new tab)
BBC NewsCenter
Details of thousands of US immigration agents leaked in major hack
A group called the Department of Peace released information on more than 41,000 DHS staff.
2 hr agoRead at BBC News (opens in a new tab)
Straight Arrow NewsCenter
Loaded verb“Shielded by DHS”“Shielded” asserts a motive for DHS withholding agents’ names, which the facts in the coverage do not establish.More neutral: Identities of immigration agents exposed in data breachDisagree with this highlight?, immigration agents’ identities exposed in massive data breach
More than 40,000 DHS employees, including those with ICE and CBP, have had their identities exposed after a breach by hackers.
4 hr agoRead at Straight Arrow News (opens in a new tab)

From the right

0 outlets

No right-leaning outlet that Mantle follows has covered this story yet. That absence is part of the picture.

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Who reported it when

How the coverage built up

Left
2 hr 27 min later
Its first report, Oct 28, 6:27 PM EDT
Center
First to report
Straight Arrow News, Oct 28, 4:00 PM EDT
Right
No report yet
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Straight Arrow NewsCenterOct 28, 4:00 PM EDT
BBC NewsCenterOct 28, 6:12 PM EDT
The HillCenterOct 28, 6:24 PM EDT
The GuardianLeftOct 28, 6:27 PM EDT

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Leak site publishes data on over 40,000 DHS staff, including immigration agents

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From the left

Non-profit group leaks data of more than 40,000 homeland security workers

From the center

Website leaks data on over 40,000 DHS employees

Details of thousands of US immigration agents leaked in major hack

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How the coverage built up

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