🛡️Bluesky Blocks Links to Leaked Archive on 41,000 DHS Employees

Your contact info might be sitting in a leaked DHS dump

Bluesky is blocking users from opening links to a leaked archive of records on more than 41,000 Department of Homeland Security employees and contractors. Click the link and you get a "Blocked Link" page calling it malicious. Not exactly the transparency story Bluesky likes to tell. If you run a platform, or just post links for a living, this is the part to care about. Bluesky chose to block the URLs instead of pulling individual posts, which sounds tidy until you realize it means the whole archive is off-limits to anyone on the network. The company's own guidelines ban sharing personal contact info but explicitly protect factual reporting on government transparency. Those two rules are now in tension, and Bluesky hasn't said which one won. The archive lists names, emails, phone numbers, and internal group memberships, some tied to surveillance and undercover work. Bluesky has 45 million registered accounts as of August, and roughly 10.4 million people used its mobile app in June. The catch: Bluesky didn't answer whether the block was automatic or whether a government agency asked for it. Third-party app Klearsky opens the links with no warning, so the block isn't universal across the protocol.