🗞️ Story file #1112
Thousands of DHS employees' data leaked in major breach
Oct 28, 11 PM ET to Oct 29, 6 AM ET
- 13outlets carried it
- 🫏7 · 4 · 2🐘left · center · right
- 7 hourson the front pages
- 13front pages at once, at its peak
- 15 sof TV captions
- 42people retold it online
👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.
- Oct 28, 11 PM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
- Oct 28, 11 PM ETfirst on a front page: The Washington Post
- Oct 29, 5 AM ETretold online by 42 people
- Oct 29, 6 AM ETpeak: on 13 front pages
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
📌 Linked by aggregators
3 Drudge Report · Google News · Political Wire
aggregators linking to it from their front page (they don't count as outlets covering it)
✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- Yahoo News (2 wordings): “Details of thousands of U.S. immigration agents leaked in a massive hack” → “Hackers leak details of 41,000 DHS employee, including nearly 6,600 ICE agents”
Every outlet's first headline (13), left to right by AllSides rating
Raw Story
Hackers unmask thousands of DHS agents Trump officials tried to keep hidden: Report Oct 28, 7 PM ET
The Guardian
Non-profit group leaks data of more than 40,000 homeland security workers Oct 28, 7 PM ET
CNBC
Over 41,000 U.S. Homeland Security officials' details apparently exposed after massive data breach Oct 29, 1 AM ET
NBC News
DHS hack exposes 40,000 employee names and undercover ICE agents, activists say Oct 29, 6 AM ET
NPR
Hackers expose the identities of more than 40,000 DHS employees Oct 29, 12 AM ET
The Washington Post
Hackers identify thousands of DHS employees in massive data breach Oct 28, 11 PM ET
Yahoo News
Details of thousands of U.S. immigration agents leaked in a massive hack Oct 28, 9 PM ET
BBC
Details of thousands of US immigration agents leaked in major hack Oct 28, 7 PM ET
Reuters
Leak website releases data on thousands of US Homeland Security employees Oct 28, 9 PM ET
Straight Arrow News
Shielded by DHS, immigration agents’ identities exposed in massive data breach Oct 28, 4 PM ET
The Hill
Website leaks data on more than 40,000 DHS employees Oct 28, 9 PM ET
The Epoch Times
41,000 Homeland Security Employees and Undercover ICE Agents Exposed in Data Leak, Hackers Say Oct 29, 12 AM ET
New York Post
Massive data breach exposes 40,000 US Homeland Security employees Oct 29, 4 AM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
- right
📺 On TV
minutes its captions were on screen, by channel; the disc is the network's lean
📻 On the radio
hourly newscasts that carried it, by programme; beside the count, how often it was the lead story, or the highest it came in the running order
📻🤷 No radio newscast matched to it.
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it
🧶 Retold online
- A major hack exposed the personal information and identities of over 40,000 DHS employees, including undercover ICE and CBP agents. Oct 29: told by 42 people
On Folklore: the latest in full, with their motifs and who is telling them.
Homeland Security DepartmentDHSDonald TrumpNon-profit groupHackers
🔎 Checking
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🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
🌱 A story of its own so far: no saga yet.