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Massive ICE Goon ID Leak Halted by Cyber Attack From Russia (www.thedailybeast.com)

submitted 4 months ago by HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works to c/news@lemmy.world

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A website dedicated to naming ICE and Border Patrol employees is coming under a “prolonged and sophisticated” cyber attack after the Daily Beast revealed it planned to make public 4,500 names of federal immigration staff.

The founder of ICE List said the website was overwhelmed by malicious web traffic originating in Russia after the Beast reported that a huge cache of personal IDs had been leaked to the site by an alleged Department of Homeland Security whistleblower.

The Direct Denial of Service (DDOS) assault, which began on Tuesday evening and is still ongoing at the time of publication, saw a huge number of IPs simultaneously access the website of ICE List, a self-styled “accountability initiative.”

This has successfully overloaded the ICE List’s servers and is preventing people from accessing the site. The timing coincided with ICE List founder Dominick Skinner telling the Daily Beast he would make public the first tranche of names in the dataset, which was leaked following the shooting by an ICE agent of mom Renee Nicole Good.

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[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 323 points 4 months ago (18 children)

Make a torrent and it will be on the internet forever.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 69 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Given how small a dataset it is, in addition tona torrent it can also be shared in an ever growing list of Mega links.

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[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 18 points 4 months ago

That doesn't seem to be what they want, and they are sending a bunch of flying monkeys after everyone that asks for it.

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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 214 points 4 months ago (20 children)

The Direct Denial of Service (DDOS) assault,

That's not was DDOS means: Distributed Denial of Service

...meaning it comes from so many different sources its very hard to block.

[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 79 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It's the daily beast, would not be surprised if the article was AI hallucinated based on a few tweets or something

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[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 43 points 4 months ago (2 children)

AI doesn’t know that.

[–] damnedfurry@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

It's a common acronym. This isn't the kind of thing an LLM would screw up, in my experience, I'd put my money on human error for this one.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ding ding ding

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[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 98 points 4 months ago (14 children)

Oh noes. So horrible that there are no other ways this can be disseminated and I am SURE the organizers aren't looking into those at all.

I guess the more interesting question is.. is this putin or is it just a black hat for hire working out of russia?

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I guess the more interesting question is.. is this putin or is it just a black hat for hire working out of russia?

I have good money on it being a "friend" of Pooty-Poot's who wants to squash resistance to ICE. Possibly someone who's in a position of power. Possibly someone who's a demented rapist felon and a pathological liar.

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 92 points 4 months ago (3 children)

So Russian criminals are helping American GeStaPo fascists in taking over the country? What a coincidence...

[–] Insekticus@aussie.zone 29 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Birds of a shitfeather flock together, Randy

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 86 points 4 months ago

That's what torrents are for

[–] JackBinimbul@lemmy.blahaj.zone 62 points 4 months ago

So . . . Trump reached out to daddy for help.

[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 46 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Putin - Who's your friend?

Trump - You are, boss. It's only you.

FYI - I was able to get through to the Icelist wiki page which now has a 403 Forbidden on it. I don't know who controls the site rn.

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[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 41 points 4 months ago

Make the static dataset available on IPFS and you'll have node operators pin it on their instance. Good luck taking that down.

I'd be okay with a torrent as well.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 38 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Since when did the first D in DDOS stand for DIRECT and not DISTRIBUTED?

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 12 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Never, and attributing the use of Russian IPs to the Russian state for a DDOS attack is baseless speculation. This article is uninformed clickbait horseshit.

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[–] plz1@lemmy.world 34 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Isn't it Distributed Denial of Service for DDOS?

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 18 points 4 months ago

It is. This is a quality article.

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 34 points 4 months ago (31 children)

Yeah this probably should have been archived offline immediately and then spread around to decentralize it.

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[–] DarkSideOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 33 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Why Russia would protect this administration interests like that?

[–] hunnybubny@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 4 months ago (2 children)

To further destabilize the country.

It is serving their interests.

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[–] tehsillz@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago (5 children)

It's ridiculous that people in this thread actually believe this. Why would they use russian IPs if it was a russian DDOS attack, lol. It would be like signing your name on a bomb threat.

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[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 31 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Now why on earth would Russia want to halt the leak? Especially when they're so mad at us about Venezuela and the oil we're seizing? 🤔

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[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 30 points 4 months ago

The founder of ICE List said the website was overwhelmed by malicious web traffic originating in Russia

Putin and his Black Hundreds trying to protect the little army of Kluxers in olive drab.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 26 points 4 months ago (1 children)

All they needed to do was put out a torrent.

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[–] l_isqof@lemmy.world 23 points 4 months ago

I wonder why these pigs wouldn't want to publish their name if they just got their best job in their life ...

[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 21 points 4 months ago

It’s pointless to make speculations about the origin of the attack.

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 20 points 4 months ago (6 children)

No shot Russia is actually behind protecting the US government from its own people.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

From what I've heard, Putin wants "democracy" to be a slang term for chaos, go figure the rest.

Despots really want to make democracy a "failed experiment in human history", and restore the age of autocrats.

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Never ceases to amaze me that people refuse to believe or need to be reminded that Russia, China and others are actively and aggressively trying to undermine political and social stability in the US. Social media troll farms and bots, hacks of infrastructure, and apparently now preventing leaks of information detrimental to trump’s SS.

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[–] Zamboni_Driver@lemmy.ca 15 points 4 months ago

The DDOS is coming from inside the house

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 14 points 4 months ago

Friends Helping Friends ❤️

[–] LemUser@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I don't know what you guys are talking about. I have no problem accessing the site. Could I be on a fake one? https://icelist.is/ice/

[–] LemUser@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

mine looks like this and when I click on an office, person or directory, it yields dozens of sub categories or more names of underlings:

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[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 13 points 4 months ago

Massive ICE Goon ID Leak Halted by Cyber Attack From Russia

My mind went somewhere totally different reading "goon leak"

[–] 6stringringer@lemmy.zip 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Why announce? Do it & the damage done did. Then announce it. Fucking amateurs. Probably something Walter Sobchak would say.

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[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Whoever has this info, if its real is a moron bar none. One torrent and by now it would be everywhere. Instead they create a puff website for it.

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 months ago

ICElist has been there before the leak though.

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