NEW: Trump Mobile finally confirms that it was exposing customers' names, email addresses, mailing addresses, and cellphone numbers. The company blamed a third-party provider and said it found no evidence that credit card numbers, SSNs, or other financial information spilled online.

wait, the FBI Director has a personal merch website???

NEW: FBI Director Kash Patel's personal merchandise website was taken offline today after it was revealed that hackers had hijacked it to trick visitors into downloading malware. san.com/cc/kash-pate...

NEW: In the morning, lawmakers plan to introduce an amendment to a $580 billion transportation bill that would make federal highway funds contingent on states and cities killing off their automated license plate reader programs, i.e., Flock, in most cases.

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New --> Hackers have breached automatic tank gauges (ATGs) at gas stations in multiple states. US officials suspect Iran. ATGs monitor the amount of fuel in storage tanks. www.cnn.com/2026/05/15/p...

NEW: A group of Democratic senators are pushing back on attempts by the Department of Homeland Security to develop its own smart glasses for biometric identification. "DHS should immediately abandon any plans it has to develop this technology," the senators said. san.com/cc/dhs-is-wo...

NEW: A tool known as the Apocalypse Early Warning System alerts users to unusual spikes in private jet & military aircraft activity, framed by its creator as a potential signal of insider knowledge about major events. san.com/cc/is-the-ap...

NEW: The Iranian-linked hacker group Handala has leaked hundreds of thousands of emails and the private X messages of Robert Malley, President Barack Obama’s lead negotiator on the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. san.com/cc/iran-link...

An Atlanta suburb learned Flock was using livestreams from a children's gymnastics studio, a pool, and a playground in sales pitches to other cities. Residents are furious but the city renewed its contract with Flock anyway: www.404media.co/city-learns-...

NEW: A bipartisan pair of senators are demanding answers from Navigate360, the company whose 'anonymous' tip platform was hacked. The breach, as revealed last month by myself & @ddosecrets.org, exposed 8.3 million highly sensitive records from 1987 to 2025. san.com/cc/senators-...

NEW: The Iran-linked hacker group Handala sent threatening WhatsApp messages to U.S. military personnel in the Middle East on Monday before publishing the alleged names & phone numbers of 2,379 Marines on Tuesday. I called two dozen numbers to see if the data was legit. san.com/cc/iran-link...

NEW: FOIA documents show Palantir is helping the IRS target criminal investigations using "massive-scale" data mining across federal databases theintercept.com/2026/04/24/p...

NEW: Apple fixed the bug that law enforcement, like the FBI, were taking advantage of to extract chat messages that had been deleted or disappeared automatically. Until now the iPhone stored deleted or disappered messages in a database, allowing authorities to access them with forensic tools.

Anonymous tips used to prevent school shootings have been leaked with identifying info, which puts the entire system at risk. Really important story from @mikaelthalen.bsky.social san.com/cc/sandy-hoo...

A recent hack of P3 Global Intel has exposed details about potential school shooters and bullies, as well as the people who informed on them. An analysis by Straight Arrow revealed the highly sensitive nature of the leak. Details at the link: https://ow.ly/34zu50YNYis

The Iranian-linked hacker group Handala is soliciting information about Israel over an "encrypted, zero-trace dead-drop." It's a website without SSL.

Software used for submitting anonymous tips in schools was hacked, exposing sensitive records on issues such as potential school shootings. straightarrowne.ws/4tn3lur

NEW: A breach at the company behind the 'anonymous' tip lines used by more than 35,000 schools has exposed tips sent in by students, parents & teachers involving everything from bullying & potential school shootings to suicidal thoughts & sexual misconduct. san.com/cc/sandy-hoo...

🚨 ICE Glasses are coming - specialized smart glasses designed by and for the Department of Homeland Security, documents reveal: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

big news, the FAA has gotten rid of criminal penalties for flying drones near ICE vehicles

NEW: The hackers who stole 8.3 million crime tip records are now offering the data for $10K on a cybercrime forum. "It’s truly not something I want to do & it goes against my principles,” one hacker said. “However, it was out of necessity. Principles are for the well-fed." san.com/cc/hackers-w...

For this months column I wrote about the intersection of cyberwarfare and hacktivism and how we ended up with Handala Hack after things like Guccifer 2.0 and NB65 came before it.

SCOOP The Iranian group producing the Trump LEGO videos have a secret weapon.....Americans who send them tips and ideas to make their content better www.wired.com/story/inside...

Good reminder to change your notification settings to not show the content of communications!

Hackers linked to the Iranian government have been targeting critical U.S. infrastructure, a joint U.S. government advisory says. san.com/cc/iran-link...

New, by me: Mounir Idrassi, the developer of the popular file encryption software Veracrypt, says Microsoft has locked his account used for sending software updates, and warned that Windows users who encrypt their PCs with his software may soon find it "impossible to boot," Idrassi tells me.

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...