Surveillance expansionMar 1, 2026
Hackers leak DHS contracting data naming 6,681 companies and groups
A group calling itself the Department of Peace said it hacked a DHS contracting office and leaked data on 6,681 companies and organizations that sought DHS work, including Palantir, Anduril, Microsoft and Oracle, with a list of which ones won contracts. It said it acted over the killings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti. DHS and ICE did not comment.
On March 1, 2026, the transparency group DDoSecrets published 17 MB of data that a group calling itself the Department of Peace said it took from DHS's Office of Industry Partnership. It lists 6,681 organizations that applied for DHS contracts, including Palantir, Anduril, Raytheon, Microsoft and Oracle, and a second list of which ones won contracts and what for. The largest awards in the files are $70 million to Cyber Apex Solutions and $59.2 million to SAIC, as TechCrunch reported. Security researcher Micah Lee built a searchable explorer. The group cited the killings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. DHS and ICE did not respond to TechCrunch's request for comment, and we have found no independent authentication of the data.
How we know: DDoSecrets' release page and TechCrunch's report read directly, and the figures checked against the leaked files themselves, which we hold privately (Oct 3, 2026). The data is the hackers'; DHS has not confirmed it. Cite as "data published by DDoSecrets, reviewed by TechCrunch," not "DHS records." Corrected Oct 3, 2026: an earlier version said researchers told TechCrunch the files look genuine; TechCrunch's article does not say that.
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