New: Florida's wildlife police are giving ICE access to Flock from thousands of cameras around the country & performed dozens of lookups for immigration enforcement per month. Shows ICE is still accessing and also shows that access often comes from unexpected places: www.404media.co/floridas-wil...

Tips from Luigi Mangione manhunt exposed in BlueLeaks 2.0 via @crimew.gay and @mikaelthalen.bsky.social san.com/cc/tips-from...

happy to report i found the tip that led to luigi mangiones arrest in the P3 data leak. mikael did a good job writing up all of the tips leading up to that point!

NEW: Hacked Crime Stoppers data reveals the tips received during the 5-day manhunt for Luigi Mangione. I spoke with one woman who claims to have come face-to-face with Mangione the day before his arrest. san.com/cc/tips-from...

Wanna know if your school uses Flock? Through records requests and audit logs, FOIAball found over 75 universities that have surveillance cameras installed on campus. There's almost certainly many, many more. www.foiaball.com/p/flock-came...

There's a bonanza of illicit surveillance shenanigans in Hungary going on right now The latest: calls between sources and Politico journalists intercepted and leaked online 👇 www.politico.eu/article/poli...

Breaking WaPo: Trump showed a classified map he retained from his first term in office to passengers on a 2022 private plane flight and retained another record so sensitive that only six high-ranking government officials had access to it, according to a prosecution memo released to Congress.

A federal judge on Friday sided with The New York Times in its lawsuit against the Trump administration's Pentagon press rules. san.com/cc/federal-j...

NEW: The Portland Police Bureau is telling residents to temporarily avoid submitting information through Crime Stoppers after a data breach revealed by @ddosecrets.org & I exposed 8.3 million records san.com/cc/portland-...

The Portland Police Bureau said to temporarily avoid submitting information through Crime Stoppers after a data breach first reported by SAN. san.com/cc/portland-...

New, by me: A cyberattack on a vehicle breathalyzer company called Intoxalock has left drivers across the United States stranded and unable to start their cars.

The FBI has seized two domains tied to the Iranian-linked hacker group Handala after a cyberattack against a medical technology company. san.com/cc/fbi-seize...

I received this statement from Navigate360 overnight: "We are currently working to determine whether we have experienced an incident involving our computer network and, if so, the extensiveness of the incident and the information involved." Our story: www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

New from 404 Media: Tinder plans to use AI to scan your camera roll. AI will scan users’ locally-stored photos to help construct profiles by determining what users’ interests and values are. Designed to filters explicit photos but users may still be concerned www.404media.co/tinder-plans...

Kash Patel refused to deny that the FBI is buying up Americans' location data. This is a shocking end run around the 4th amendment and exactly why we need to pass real privacy reforms NOW.

FBI director Kash Patel confirms the FBI is buying location data and histories that can be used for tracking people. It's the first time in recent years that the FBI has said it's actively buying this information, without needing a warrant. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

P3 Global Intel, maker of criminal tip software for law enforcement across the US, has been hacked. Tipsters' personal info stored in plaintext. Massive privacy (and retribution) problem with a long-term chilling effect. Very important scoop from @mikaelthalen.bsky.social: san.com/cc/millions-...

blueleaks 2.0 or "the snitch files", which is what im calling it

BlueLeaks 2.0 (91.53 GB) BlueLeaks 2.0 contains millions of submissions and tips about alleged crimes and terrorist acts. The data comes from P3, which is used by intelligence, law enforcement, and schools. ddosecrets.org/article/blue... Help us keep publishing: donorbox.org/ddosecrets

EXCLUSIVE: Millions of 'anonymous' crime tips sent to law enforcement, the military and Crime Stoppers have been exposed by hackers. The data—provided to me & @ddosecrets.org by the hackers—contains 8.3 million highly sensitive records spanning from 1987 to 2025. san.com/cc/millions-...

Big report from @thomasbrewster.bsky.social Looks like US-Israeli missile strikes killed two Iranian cyber chiefs, including the MOIS man in charge of Handala, which may explain their particular aggression as of late www.forbes.com/sites/the-wi...

Well I got all bent out of shape about Proton Mail. There are valid use cases for these tools but users should know what the service can and can't protect. freedom.press/digisec/blog...

With its breach of med tech firm Stryker, Iranian hacker group Handala has become the most prominent face of the regime's attempts at retaliatory cyberattacks. We dug into who's behind the group—named after a Palestinian cartoon character—its tactics, and its history. www.wired.com/story/handal...

NEW: NUKEMAP, the online tool that let's users simulate nuclear weapons attacks, is seeing a surge in visitors amid the war in Iran. san.com/cc/what-a-bo...

Excellent reporting here by @raphae.li about a hacker who breached an FBI server, apparently without knowing it was the FBI, and accessed the Epstein files. The hacker allegedly threatened to report the server's owner TO THE FBI bc of disgust over CSAM on the server, www.reuters.com/world/us/for...

NEW: A cell site simulator, commonly referred to as an IMSI catcher or Stingray, showed up on eBay this week for $50,000. After I inquired about the listing, eBay pulled it down. san.com/cc/ice-uses-...

Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.

NEW: A couple of 20-year-old developers make $500,000 a month promising to help men, including minors, to stop watching porn, but exposed their private porn watching habits. When we asked them about it in January, they lied about the huge security flaw. Here's why we're naming them now:

The FBI has identified a suspected cybersecurity incident on a sensitive network used to manage wiretaps and intelligence surveillance warrants www.cnn.com/2026/03/05/p...

New from 404 Media: Proton Mail, the privacy-focused email service, gave authorities data that let the FBI unmask an anonymous 'Stop Cop City' protester. It was payment data linked to the anonymous email account. From that, FBI ID'd them, then tracked their movements www.404media.co/proton-mail-...

NEW: A lawsuit against Google says its AI chat bot: - Told a man it was his wife - Told him to find it a robot body - Told him to destroy a truck & kill its driver to obtain said body - Told him he was being surveilled by DHS - And told him, successfully, to kill himself san.com/cc/man-belie...

I spoke with two ICE watchers who lost their Global Entry after brushes with federal agents. Now an internal memo shows Customs and Border Protection is evaluating cases where people's Global Entry could be revoked based on "encounters" with its officers. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-wa...

Worth remembering that ai cannot train itself. There’s entire offices of people labelling things and i bet its not only peoples meta glasses getting viewed like this. I wonder how many personal messages or docs are too

NEW: Contractors for Meta say they've been tasked with reviewing smart glasses footage in order to train the company's AI. The contractors say they've seen videos showing wearers having sex, undressing & using the bathroom. san.com/cc/what-your...

A full iOS exploitation toolkit, "Coruna," has been found in the wild, hacking iPhones that visited infected websites, used by Russian spies targeting Ukrainians and thieves targeting Chinese crypto holders. And it may have been originally created for the US government. www.wired.com/story/coruna...

NEW: Is the U.S. at risk of retaliatory cyberattacks from Iran? Here's what experts at cybersecurity firms like CrowdStrike and Recorded Future have to say san.com/cc/is-the-us...

SCOOP: An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. This surveillance can happen through all sorts of apps, such as video games, news apps, weather trackers, and dating apps.

NEW: A popular prayer app used in Iran began urging users on Saturday to "lay down your weapons" as part of an apparent hack. Ex-NSA hacker Jake Williams tells Straight Arrow News: "This is very likely an Israeli cyber operation." san.com/cc/lay-down-...

A police officer in Milwaukee is facing criminal charges after he allegedly used his department’s license plate reader technology to track someone he was dating and that person’s ex san.com/cc/police-of...

Great pull from the Epstein files. FBI tried to figure out who on 4chan had scooped all news outlets on Epstein's death, but the trail went cold when they couldn't find who had that IP address.

NEW: I dug into audit logs and spoke to police, sheriffs & Jeff Sovern, accused by law enforcement in Virginia of destroying 13 Flock cameras, to learn about the trend of vandalism against license plate readers. san.com/cc/vandals-t...

SCOOP: A White House staffer appears to be operating the anonymous pro-Trump X account JohnnyMAGA with nearly 300,000 followers. More here: www.wired.com/story/a-whit...

NEW: The FBI subpoenaed X to get details on the Grok prompts a man allegedly used to create more than 200 nonconsensual sexual videos of a woman he knew in real life, according to court records.

Huge win for Hannah Natanson and the Washington Post today: the judge ruled that the government cannot search the devices they seized from her. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Breaking MS NOW: Agents with the FBI's elite evidence response team were delayed in reaching the scene of a mass shooting at Brown U. in December because there was no FBI plane available. Kash Patel was in south Florida at the time with one of the FBI's two available jets.

When ICE's Operation Metro Surge scaled up in Minneapolis, something else surged as well: Gun purchase permit applications. Minneapolis saw triple the number in January 2026 compared to the previous year. And 'liberal' gun groups are seeing a spike. san.com/cc/minneapol...

NEW: Researchers in New York were able to uncover the identities of health care patients by using AI against "anonymized" clinical notes. In one instance, de-identified notes describing a pregnant woman who enjoyed horse riding was enough for the AI to discover her identity. san.com/cc/hipaa-pro...

Breaking MS NOW: An ICE whistleblower is expected to testify at a congressional forum today that the agency is "lying to Congress and the American people" about its training of new recruits. Ryan Schwank was an ICE academy instructor for new recruits before he resigned earlier this month.

The YouTube clone "JeffTube," from the project that produced Jmail, lets you watch all the DOJ's Epstien videos as if you were on YouTube san.com/cc/jmail-and...

NEW: Jeffrey Epstein cultivated relationships with CBP officers at the airports he frequented. Epstein emailed and texted with six CBP officers, invited them to his island, visited with them at the airport, and frequently sought to determine who was going to be on duty when he was traveling