On Wednesday, the nonprofit DDoSecrets published a database of more than 41,000 employee records stolen from the DHS. Bluesky, which has strict policies against sharing someone’s personal information, tells Wired that it’s blocking links to the archive because they contain people’s email addresses and phone numbers “shared without their authorization.” [Link: Bluesky Is Blocking Links to a Major Leak of DHS Employee Records | https://www.wired.com/story/bluesky-blocks-links-to-major-leak-of-dhs-data/ | WIRED]
On Wednesday, the nonprofit DDoSecrets published a database of more than 41,000 employee records stolen from the DHS. Bluesky, which has strict policies against sharing someone’s personal information , tells Wired that it’s blocking links to the archive because they contain people’s email addresses and phone numbers “shared without their authorization.”
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