Juice Jacking (Department of Homeland Security)

Good Morning, Attached is our final response to your request.  If you need to contact this office again concerning your request, please provide the DHS reference number. This will enable us to quickly retrieve the information you are seeking and reduce our response time. This office can be reached at 866-431-0486. Regards, DHS Privacy Office
Disclosure & FOIA Program
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Department of Homeland Security
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Washington, DC 20528-0655
Telephone:  1-866-431-0486 or 202-343-1743
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January 23, 2020 JosephUchill MuckRock News DEPT MR 84648 411A Highland Ave Somerville, MA 02144-2516 RE:     CISA Case Number 2020-NPFO-00086 DHS Privacy Office CaseNumber 2020-HQFO-00394 Dear Mr. Uchill: This acknowledges receipt of aFreedom of Information Act (FOIA) referral to the U.S. Department of HomelandSecurity (DHS), Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), related toyour January 22, 2020 FOIA request to the DHS Privacy Office for documents describing incidents, statistics, or concerns about "juice jacking," the practice of using cell phone charging as a cyberattack vector, produced since January 1, 2019. In late 2019, both the FCC and L.A. County D.A.'s office issued warnings about "juice jacking" (Date Range for Record Search: From 1/1/2019 To 1/23/2019). While processing your request, the Privacy Office determinedthat the records being sought likely fall under the purview of CISA. Accordingly,your request was referred to this office on January 23, 2020 for review anddirect response to you. Dueto the increasing number of FOIA requests received by this office, we mayencounter some delay in processing your request. Per Section 5.5(a) of the DHSFOIA regulations, 6 C.F.R. Part 5, CISA processes FOIA requests according totheir order of receipt. Although CISA’s goal is to respond within 20 businessdays of receipt of your request, the FOIA does permit a 10- day extension ofthis time period. As your request seeks numerous documents that willnecessitate a thorough and wide-ranging search, CISA will invoke a 10-dayextension for your request, as allowed by Title 5 U.S.C. § 552(a)(6)(B). If youcare to narrow the scope of your request, please contact our office. We willmake every effort to comply with your request in a timely manner. Provisions of the FOIA allow us torecover part of the cost of complying with your request.  We shall charge youfor records in accordance with the DHS FOIA regulations, as they apply tomedia requesters.  As a media requester, you will be charged 10 cents perpage for duplication; the first 100 pages are free.  We will construe thesubmission of your request as an agreement to pay up to $25.00. You will becontacted before any further fees are accrued. We have queried the appropriate programoffices within CISA for responsive records. If any responsive records arelocated, they will be reviewed for determination of releasability. Please beassured that one of the processors in our office will respond to your requestas expeditiously as possible. We appreciate your patience as we proceed withyour request. If you have any questions or wish to discuss reformulation or analternative time frame for the processing of your request, please contact FOIAoffice.  You may send an e-mail to CISAFOIA@HQ.DHS.GOV (mailto:CISAFOIA@HQ.DHS.GOV) , call free 703-235-2211 , or you may contact our FOIA Public Liaison in thesame manner.  Additionally, you have a right to seek dispute resolutionservices from the Office of Government Information Services (OGIS) whichmediates disputes between FOIA requesters and Federal agencies as anon-exclusive alternative to litigation.  If you are requesting access toyour own records (which is considered a Privacy Act request), you should knowthat OGIS does not have the authority to handle requests made under the PrivacyAct of 1974.  You may contact OGIS as follows:  Office of GovernmentInformation Services, National Archives and Records Administration, 8601Adelphi Road-OGIS, College Park, Maryland 20740-6001, e-mail at ogis@nara.gov;telephone at 202-741-5770; toll free at 1-877-684-6448; or facsimile at202-741-5769. Your request has beenassigned reference number .Please refer to this identifier in any future correspondence. 2020-NPFO-00086 Tocheck the status of an CISA FOIA request, please visit http://www.dhs.gov/foia-status .Please note that to check the status of a request, you must enter the 2020-NPFO-00086 tracking number. Sincerely, CISA FOIA

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Please see the letter attached and feel free to contact this office with any questions or concerns.

Respectfully,

FOIA
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Desk: 703-235-2211
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