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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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[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 12 points 9 hours ago

Even more reason why it should be released as a dump, and not walled in behind a website.

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 7 points 9 hours ago

The mofos want to hide their SVR agents working at ICE.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 40 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 15 points 16 hours ago (1 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.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 7 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

It is the Daily Beast. They're basically the Weekly World News of internet media outlets. Surprised they haven't yet reported on what Bat Boy is doing.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 15 hours ago

@phutatorius@lemmy.zip care to explain your disapproval of our discussion?

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 11 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Well, it's slow, but I am getting past the homepage today, unlike yesterday.

Update: It seems to be working pretty smoothly for me now. A couple hangups, but mostly all good.

If it holds, I'd maybe take this post down to avoid confusion or discouragment.

[–] neuromorph@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

let me know when to tor is setup

[–] Zamboni_Driver@lemmy.ca 16 points 15 hours ago

The DDOS is coming from inside the house

[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 20 points 16 hours ago

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

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 25 points 17 hours 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.

[–] prenatal_confusion@feddit.org 2 points 14 hours ago

They do but don't forget the us government is trying to do the same thing by breaking with norms and stiring up trouble.

This can easily be a a hit by an us funded group or agency to prevent waking of the gestapo.

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 13 points 15 hours ago

Massive ICE Goon ID Leak Halted by Cyber Attack From Russia

My mind went somewhere totally different reading "goon leak"

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 8 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I hear Russia is very good with the cyber

[–] __Lost__@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 hours ago

18/F/Cali wanna cyber?

[–] DarkSideOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 33 points 22 hours ago (5 children)

Why Russia would protect this administration interests like that?

[–] tehsillz@lemmy.world 15 points 16 hours ago (4 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.

[–] cockmushroom@reddthat.com 4 points 12 hours ago

What do you suppose they have to lose from such a brazen attack in defence of the interests of the leader at the expense of the people he hates?

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 points 13 hours ago

Or poisoning your dissidents with a compound only used by the Russian government.

[–] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 6 points 16 hours ago

Why would they use russian IPs if it was a russian DDOS attack, lol

Because theres no reason not to.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Why would they care if they are identified? Who's going to do ANYTHING about it?

Also, maybe they WANT the world to know they can do things like this, like changing votes in an election. If you want the world to know you are in control, you have to demonstrate it.

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 4 points 13 hours ago

Well they paid for it...

[–] hunnybubny@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

To further destabilize the country.

It is serving their interests.

[–] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Would it not be more destabilizing to allow this leak to go through? Seems like by stopping this, they are propping up the government?

[–] hunnybubny@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 13 hours ago

The government is not the country.

The sense of justice is being denied. The feeling of their oppressor being shielded is prolonged.

They want citizens boiling.

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[–] plz1@lemmy.world 36 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Isn't it Distributed Denial of Service for DDOS?

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 19 points 18 hours ago

It is. This is a quality article.

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 20 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 4 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

It's not about taking either side, it's about sowing chaos.

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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 15 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours 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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[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 312 points 1 day ago (17 children)

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

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