ICE List says website was hit just as it prepared to publish names of federal immigration staff leaked by an alleged whistleblower.

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.

  • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz
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    3 hours ago

    ICE agents aren’t going to quit over doxxing, they’re the type to jerk off over the idea of someone trying to hurt them or their family.

    If America was going to rise up, seeing ice agents get got in their own home would be inspirational, in the same way a burning police station was inspiration in 2020; showing people that you’re not powerless does infinitely more to bring people out than seeing a million people march for 6 hours and go home having accomplished nothing.

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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      3 hours ago

      ICE agents are like anyone else. Wives generally speak very loudly in situations like this, and even if they aren’t worried about themselves, their wives will make them care about their families.

      Doxxing might not affect all of them, but it will affect a non-zero number of them, at a time when they are desperately recruiting for more.

      ICE is doing what Russia can’t. Why would Russia want that to end, just as it’s all getting started, and getting results?