A company working on behalf of the Department of Homeland Security sought to cut off online access to information on more than 41,000 employees that hacktivists said they obtained from a database breached at DHS. A search tool for the database, named Icepick, went offline for a spell before coming online again Thursday under a different registrar.
Leaked DHS employee archive, Icepick, faces challenges to stay online
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