Trump administration attempts to take down leak of ICE personnel data
An Icelandic web company, FlokiNET, has defended the data's publication as satisfying a 'legitimate' public interest.
The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has asked an Icelandic web hosting company to take down a site with information about tens of thousands of its employees.
On Thursday, the Icelandic company FlokiNET posted a letter it received from the cybersecurity firm ZeroFox, on behalf of DHS.
The letter accused FlokiNET of violating its terms of service by publishing a “stolen” employee dataset and asked it to “remove or disable” the information.
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