HAGERSTOWN, Md. — People signed up to several sites to inquire about efforts to stop ICE, or at least the ICE facilities in Washington County and elsewhere.
Instead, according to Hagerstown Rapid Response leaders, what they appear to have received was something far more concerning: their personal information left exposed in a way that required little effort to access, followed by a message that immediately raised alarm.
Over the weekend, HRR reported that something was wrong with GTFOICE.org, a high-profile anti-ICE organizing site. The project is described as a collaboration between DEFIANCE.org, Project Salt Box, and Save America Movement.
Nearly 18,000 people entered their personal information into the platform, including names, email addresses, phone numbers and zip codes with the expectation that they would be connected to local organizing efforts. Instead, that data appears to have been accessible through a publicly exposed source that lacked basic safeguards, HRR said.
