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Miles Taylor, a former U.S. Department of Homeland Security turned fierce anti-Trump critic, announced the rollout of a new app designed to alert people about plans to open immigration detention facilities in an appearance on \u201cThe Rachel Maddow Show\u201d in late April.<\/p>\n

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Roughly 72 hours later, a former programmer linked to Elon Musk\u2019s DOGE with a large X following publicly warned about data vulnerabilities on the app while predicting that Taylor would \u201clearn this the hard way\u201d the following day.<\/p>\n

Users who signed up for the app then received email messages and phone texts stating that their emails, phone numbers, locations and other information had been \u201cforwarded to the authorities,\u201d including the FBI, Homeland Security Investigations and ICE, according to Hagerstown Rapid Response, a Maryland-based group organizing against a proposed ICE detention facility 75 miles outside of Washington, DC.<\/p>\n

The apparent breach was highlighted in a press release and blog post issued by Hagerstown Rapid Response and Washington County Indivisible claiming that \u201cnearly 18,000\u201d users were affected. The anti-ICE groups cited a post by the pro-Trump Data Republican X account indicating that 17,662 people signed up for the app.<\/p>\n

Raw Story could not independently verify the number of people affected by the breach. On May 4, the homepage for the app read, \u201cUnder construction,\u201d and as of Monday the site remained down.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a good thing to go cancel \u2014 these facilities,\u201d Taylor told Maddow on April 28. \u201cAnd it\u2019s clear in the communities where it\u2019s been successful that that crowd cancellation \u2014 that outpouring of frustration is enough to get municipalities and real estate developers and folks to take a beat, and say, \u2018Is this really what we want to sign up for?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Taylor, who previously served as chief of staff under former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen under the first Trump administration, declined to respond to a detailed set of questions from Raw Story about the alleged data breach. Taylor was the author of 2018 New York Times <\/em>\u201cAnonymous\u201d op-ed entitled, \u201cI Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration.” After leaving the administration, he co-founded the pro-democracy nonprofit Defiance.org.<\/p>\n

Laura Spivak, a member of Washington County Indivisible, told Raw Story she regrets signing up for the GTFO ICE app. And although she said she did not receive the message stating her data was forwarded to federal agencies, the reports that others did are upsetting to her.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving this information stolen and sent to these three-letter agencies is unfair, terrifying, and completely unacceptable,\u201d Spivak told Raw Story.<\/p>\n

The Data Republican account on X was the first to publicly raise concerns about the app\u2019s alleged security vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t trust any software outside of established Big Tech,\u201d Data Republican posted on May 1. \u201cGTFO ICE, launched by Miles Taylor\u2026 is going to learn this the hard way. Tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The owner of the Data Republican account was outed by Rolling Stone <\/em>in February 2025 as Jennica Pound, a former programmer for Amazon whose X posts on alleged government waste caught the eye of Elon Musk as his Department of Government Efficiency was slashing the federal workforce and grants to nonprofits.<\/p>\n

Pound\u2019s May 2 thread on X packaged as a \u201cbreaking\u201d news story announcing that users \u201csign-up data\u201d was \u201cexposed\u201d includes screenshots purporting to show the profiles of two users, albeit with the names redacted.<\/p>\n

Two other X accounts that interact with Data Republican posted screenshots with the names of eight other users. The Data Republican account operated by Pound replied to one of the posts, and separately recommended that her followers also follow the two accounts that posted users\u2019 names.<\/p>\n

Pound told Raw Story she \u201cdid not access user data,\u201d but could not speak for the other two accounts.<\/p>\n

One of the other two accounts, @bitchuneedsoap, told Raw Story: “I did not access any data. Have a great day!”<\/p>\n

The other account did not respond.<\/p>\n

Responding to another X user who asked if she ran across state or local officials in the data leak, Pound wrote on May 3: \u201cI didn\u2019t \u2018see\u2019 anything. I reported a leak, as journalists do. But the site itself was heavily promoted across major channels the entire week.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the May 2 thread announcing that the data was exposed, Pound wrote: \u201cEverything has been turned over to FBI, HSI, ICE, and more agencies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pound told Raw Story she doesn\u2019t know who sent the messages to users telling them their personal data had been \u201cforwarded to the authorities, including FBI, HSI and ICE.\u201d<\/p>\n

Under the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, it is illegal to access computers without authorization, but prosecutors have wide discretion in determining what cases to take on.<\/p>\n

Pound didn\u2019t respond to a question about why she posted on X that information about the security vulnerability was \u201cturned over\u201d to Homeland Security Investigations and to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an agency under the Department of Homeland Security that is not known to have a role in protecting private citizens\u2019 data.<\/p>\n

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