FBI rushes to investigate if ShinyHunters hack of thousands of employees is real
It's unclear what will happen if FBI misses ShinyHunters' deadline.
The FBI is currently probing allegations made by a hacker group, ShinyHunters, concerning the unauthorized acquisition of extensive personal data belonging to numerous current and former employees. According to 404 Media, ShinyHunters brought down the FBI jobs website, FBIJobs.gov, and subsequently displayed a message claiming "THIS SITE HAS BEEN SEIZED BY SHINYHUNTERS."
The hacker group claimed to have extracted between two and three terabytes of data from the site, though as of yet, this data has not been leaked. The information reportedly encompasses "names of current and former agents as well as applicants and corresponding home addresses, phone numbers, names of spouses, certain medical information, and other data."
Bloomberg reports that such data could potentially be utilized for retaliatory purposes, with one sample suggesting the inclusion of "potentially sensitive professional information on the FBI employees' work focus such as counter-intelligence work on China, Russia and Iran, as well as work against street gangs."
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