A Department of Justice employee's email account was compromised by a hacker, who took 200GB of data, including records of 20,000 FBI workers and 9,000 DHS employees.
Delving deeper into the archive, one finds information about DHS security experts, programme analysts, IT, infosec, and security, as well as 100 individuals who hold the title of intelligence.
Motherboard claims that a hacker gained access to a Department of Justice employee's email account. As evidence, the hacker used the hacked account to send the email directly to Motherboard contributor Joseph Cox.
The apparent job titles, names, phone numbers, and email addresses of over 9,000 purported Department of Homeland Security (DHS) workers and over 20,000 purported FBI employees.
Source: https://securityaffairs.com/44320/cyber-crime/dhs-data-leaked-online.html
"id": "USD181261023",
"linkid": "us-department-of-homeland-security",
"type": "Data Leak",
"date": "02/2016",
"severity": "85",
"impact": "3",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with internal employee data leaks"