On October 16 and 17, the ScatteredLAPSUS$Hunters Telegram channel repeatedly violated Telegram's TOS by leaking personal information on people - and in this case, information on employees of the Department of Justice (DOJ/FBI), U.S. Attorneys Office (DOJ/USAO), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA). DataBreaches did not report on it at the time precisely because the files were still exposed. Instead, DataBreaches contacted Telegram to inquire why the channel hadn't been banned again for leaking sensitive information about government employees.
Known as SGEs, special government employees are limited to 130 days per year of unpaid work. Like recent SGE Elon Musk, they can be in senior positions and still have private employment and clients, unlike typical government workers at departments that handle hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts.