Hacking group ShinyHunters claims it breached the FBI, stole agents’ and applicants’ data

ShinyHunters, a prolific cybercriminal radical known for large-scale information theft and extortion, says it has breached the FBI and stolen information connected thousands of agents and applicants. The hackers made the assertion connected their dark web leak site, which TechCrunch reviewed, saying they had stolen “sensitive information connected astir each FBI agents and individuals who filed an exertion with the FBI for a job.”

404 Media first reported connected the breach aft receiving a illustration of the stolen names, location addresses, and telephone numbers of FBI agents and their spouses, and verifying a information of the stolen information against nationalist records. The hackers accidental their hack is “not financially motivated,” and are demanding that the FBI region a report that they accidental contains mendacious allegations astir the group.

The autarkic work said the hackers breached an Oracle PeopleSoft server, often utilized by quality resources and recruiters to store occupation applicants’ idiosyncratic information, past pivoted to breach an Amazon-hosted authorities unreality storing the agents and applicants’ data.

ShinyHunters told the work that they took terabytes of information but did not accidental what they would bash with the accusation if the FBI does not instrumentality down its published report. The stolen information could contiguous a large counterintelligence threat, successful which hackers and overseas spies usage the accusation to coerce oregon extort FBI agents and their families into cooperating with a overseas government.

The hackers reportedly defaced the FBI’s jobs site, which showed astatine the clip of publication that the portal was “currently down for maintenance.” The tract besides said that the FBI’s peculiar cause applicant portal was besides down.

The FBI did not respond to a petition for remark astir the incidental connected Tuesday, and neither did the ShinyHunters hackers.

This is the 2nd known breach of an FBI strategy this twelvemonth aft unidentified hackers broke into 1 of the agency’s systems for managing real-time wiretaps and overseas intelligence-gathering warrants, which could person identified targets of the agency’s surveillance. Separately, FBI manager Kash Patel besides had his idiosyncratic email relationship hacked and leaked by an Iran-backed hacking radical called Handala successful retaliation for U.S.-led strikes against Iran.