ShinyHunters Hackers Claim To Have 2-3TB Of Sensitive Information About FBI Employees

Financial extortion doesn’t seem to be the group’s goal this time.

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Hacking group ShinyHunters has allegedly stolen extensive amounts of sensitive information from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation that includes details about its employees and job applicants. Reuters reports that it has seen a sample of the data obtained by the attack on the agency, and 404 Media also said it received confirmation of the action from a representative of ShinyHunters. The hackers also appeared responsible for an unauthorized takeover of the FBI website earlier this week.

"We hacked the FBI. We hold data on all FBI employees and applicants," the spokesperson told 404 Media. According to that source, ShinyHunters got the information by using a zero day exploit in the PeopleSoft program from Oracle to obtain access to Amazon Web Services' GovCloud servers.

A statement from the FBI shared with Reuters said that the agency...

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