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FBI Announces ShinyHunters Arrestfbi.gov
16 points•sanelk•1 day ago•2 comments•
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garyfirestorm1 day ago
It appears this guy is a low hanging fruit with previous cybercrime convictions that they grabbed to “send a message” to the group. But it doesn’t seem like they even know the identities of rest of the group members.
smalltorch1 day ago
What did there demands even end up being to the FBI?

For those that missed the 404 article, apparently they hacked the FBI last week and had 3TB of data as well as a complete roster of everyone at the FBI. Pretty serious stuff and that's basically a death wish.

sanelk1 day ago
From what I understand, this past spring the FBI published an advisory claiming that ShinyHunters was responsible for an attack on a learning management system.

ShinyHunters then hacked the FBI Jobs page, allegedly stole data on all FBI employees and defaced the public site and demanded that the FBI retract their previous advisory. They said they weren’t going to release the data they stole but whether or not that’s believable is a different question.

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