404 Media

Involved in

• The outlets found much of the most sensitive storage still locked, and the key that opened the rest stored on the unit.

• Last month, 404 Media filed a freedom of information lawsuit demanding ICE release the contract and related records.

• 404 Media and WIRED published a joint analysis of files from a Flock Safety camera taken off a roadway.

• Procurement records reviewed by 404 Media identified software used by ICE to build dossiers on flagged individuals, compiling personal details, family links, and facial recognition to connect images across the web.

Statements attributed to it

• The purchase occurs during ICE’s mass deportation effort and continued crackdown on protected speech, alarming civil liberties experts and raising questions about what exactly ICE will use the surveillance system for.

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• The data breach could be massively significant and may have national security and counterintelligence implications.

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• The surveillance system ICE bought access to is designed to monitor a city neighborhood or block for mobile phones, track the movements of those devices and their owners over time, and follow them from their places of work to home or other locations.

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• Criminals from the same ecosystem as ShinyHunters have previously used hacked data to track, intimidate, and harass FBI agents investigating them.

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• ICE awarded PenLink tools that aggregate real-time commercial location data from hundreds of millions of devices without warrants.

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• If the data fell into the hands of more criminals, FBI agents and their spouses could face serious threats to their safety.

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• The highly sensitive data could be a boon to foreign intelligence agencies who want to better understand how the FBI operates.

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Published documents

• ‘We Hacked the FBI:’ Hackers Say They Have Data on All FBI Employees
• Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods

Track record

2 documents · 12 claims produced · 0 contradicted

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Origin: produced by ingest:api