{"id":41920,"date":"2026-04-05T13:23:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T13:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=41920"},"modified":"2026-04-05T13:23:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T13:23:58","slug":"cbp-facility-codes-sure-seem-to-have-leaked-via-online-flashcards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=41920","title":{"rendered":"CBP facility codes sure seem to have leaked via online flashcards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Another series of cards described certain immigration offenses and related federal charges: misuse of a passport, fraud or misuse of a visa, and fleeing from a checkpoint. Cards about voluntary return to countries outside the US, expedited removal, and warrant of removal described forms that needed to be filled out and then offered a reminder about a checklist on something called an \u201cagents Resources Page\u201d to ensure \u201caccuracy of all above.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe take reports of sensitive or inappropriate content seriously and act promptly when content is found to violate our policies,\u201d a Quizlet spokesperson wrote in a statement. \u201cWe encourage anyone who encounters concerning material to report it directly from the flashcard set, class, or profile page, or to contact us so we can review and take appropriate action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other cards offered detailed information about the Kingsville workforce\u2019s 1,932-square-mile area of responsibility, including the six county lines, and the agency\u2019s internal grid and zone organizational system. One grid \u201cdoes not exist,\u201d a card notes, because of the structure of local highways.<\/p>\n<p>Another card named the 11 CBP \u201ctowers\u201d in the area. (Some of the tower names correspond to the gates and codes that WIRED is withholding due to their potential confidentiality.) The card notes the abbreviated names of two towers and the shared area of responsibility of a third tower.<\/p>\n<p>The last card detailed an apparent internal system, \u201cE3 BEST,\u201d that allows officers to \u201crecord, investigate and adjudicate secondary referrals at USBP checkpoints\u201d by allowing them to \u201cquery subjects and vehicles simultaneously through multiple law enforcement databases and create e3 Events for referrals resulting in an arrest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This potential exposure of confidential information comes amid a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gao.gov\/assets\/gao-24-107029.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.gao.gov\/assets\/gao-24-107029.pdf\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;pattern&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;}\" data-event-boundary=\"click\" data-in-view=\"{&quot;pattern&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;}\" data-include-experiments=\"true\">rapid hiring surge at CBP<\/a>, with <a href=\"https:\/\/careers.cbp.gov\/s\/applicant-resources\/recruitment-and-retention-incentives\">up to $60,000<\/a> in recruitment and retention incentives available to some new agents. ICE is also seeking to rapidly recruit, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ice.gov\/news\/releases\/ice-announces-most-successful-federal-law-enforcement-agency-recruitment-campaign\">its plan<\/a> offering a $50,000 signing bonus and up to $60,000 in student loan repayment.<\/p>\n<p><em>This story originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/cbp-facility-codes-sure-seem-to-have-leaked-via-online-flashcards\/\">WIRED.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/security\/2026\/04\/cbp-facility-codes-sure-seem-to-have-leaked-via-online-flashcards\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another series of cards described certain immigration offenses and related federal charges: misuse of a passport, fraud or misuse of a visa, and fleeing from a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}