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#2 The Hacker News general September 23, 2026 at 05:30 UTC

ShinyHunters Claims FBI Breach, Says It Stole Data on Agents and Job Applicants

By [email protected] (The Hacker News)

AI Summary

ShinyHunters claimed on September 23 to have breached the FBI, asserting they hold sensitive data on 'almost ALL FBI Agents' and job applicants, and temporarily defaced the FBIjobs.gov website with a Pokemon image associated with the group. The FBI confirmed it is investigating the claims, and the jobs site remained unavailable. This follows ShinyHunters' history of high-profile data theft and extortion, and the group is demanding retraction of an FBI threat report.

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