ShinyHunters says it breached the FBI, stole employee data
The data breach is in retaliation for alleged disinformation published by the FBI about ShinyHunters’ cybercrime methods, according to the group. Read more: ShinyHunters says it breached the FBI, stole employee data
ShinyHunters, a cybercriminal group, announced it had breached the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on 22 September, stealing personal information of current and former FBI employees. The group claimed the breach was retaliation for a report published by the FBI, which detailed their methods and advised people not to pay if targeted.
The screenshot shared by ShinyHunters reportedly contained information on 5,000 FBI agents, including names, addresses, phone numbers, and details on their spouses. Reuters could not verify the authenticity of the screenshot but was able to partially confirm the accuracy of some of the displayed information, matching details from the leak to FBI employees in at least 10 instances.
The FBI spokesperson stated that Oracle's PeopleSoft product had a zero-day exploit, enabling ShinyHunters to gain access to AWS GovCloud servers and download data, with the total exfiltrated data ranging between 2TB and 3TB.
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