ShinyHunters Claims FBI Hack, Demands Retraction of Threat Report
The notorious cybercrime and extortion group ShinyHunters claims it breached FBI systems and accessed sensitive information.
The hackers claim to have compromised Criminal Justice, HR, and Medlink services, and say they now possess data on nearly all FBI agents and job applicants.
To demonstrate their claims, they defaced a subdomain on the FBI’s jobs website, fbijobs.gov, posting the message “This site has been seized by ShinyHunters”. The targeted domain is currently down for maintenance.
In a lengthy statement on its website, ShinyHunters said it was responding to an FBI FLASH report from May that made what it called false allegations against the group. They gave the FBI one week to correct or remove the report.
The group specifically disputed claims in the FBI report that they exaggerate their access to pressure victims into paying, use harassment tactics such as swatting or threats to victims’ families, and falsely claim to possess...
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