"The anti-ICE activist app and website StopICE has reportedly suffered a major security breach, exposing the personal information of more than 100,000 users to US federal agencies, including the FBI, ICE and HSI. Hackers said they accessed names, logins, passwords, phone numbers and GPS coordinates, and sent the data directly to authorities. One of the app's key organisers, Sherman Austin, allegedly failed to inform users of the breach despite having the opportunity to do so."
"According to social media posts and discussion threads on Reddit, the StopICE hackers delivered sensitive data from the app to multiple federal agencies. The exposed information reportedly includes full names, user credentials, phone numbers and precise location data for more than 100,000 registered users. One post indicated that the breach involved detailed GPS coordinates, potentially identifying activists' residences or frequent locations."
"Would this be an acceptable time to point out that there was nothing illegal about accessing or reading the StopICE website? So what is the government to do in response to getting users' information, when the act of simply visiting or reading a site would not seem to constitute reasonable suspicion of any crime? What does it really mean to be anti-ICE or for StopICE?"
A security breach of the StopICE app and website exposed personal information for more than 100,000 users to US federal agencies including the FBI, ICE and HSI. Hackers reportedly accessed names, logins, passwords, phone numbers and detailed GPS coordinates and delivered the data directly to authorities. Social media posts and Reddit threads indicate the exposure included precise location data that could identify residences or frequent locations. One organiser, Sherman Austin, allegedly failed to notify users. The incident raises legal and civil‑liberties questions about government use of visitor data and First Amendment implications for activists.
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