A high profile hacking group claims it has breached multiple FBI-related services and stolen data “on all FBI employees and applicants.” A representative of the group, called ShinyHunters, told 404 Media the data includes FBI agents’ names, home addresses, phone number, and information on their spouse.

The data breach could be massively significant and may have all sorts of national security and counterintelligence implications. Criminals from the same ecosystem as ShinyHunters have previously used hacked data like phone records to track, intimidate, and harass the FBI agents investigating them. The highly sensitive data could also be a boon to foreign intelligence agencies who want to better understand how one of the most important law enforcement and intelligence agencies in the U.S. operates. And if the data fell into the hands of more criminals, FBI agents and their spouses could face serious threats to their safety.

“We hacked the FBI. We hold data on all FBI employees and applicants,” the representative of the group told 404 Media.

The representative provided 404 Media with a sample appearing to contain the personal data of 5,000 FBI employees. That data included an alleged address, phone number, date of birth, and in some cases details on their spouse.


  • thesohoriots@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    It’s a real shame the feds don’t hire the nerds who might’ve prevented this. The tl;dr is hiring freezes, reinstated fitness tests, and drug usage disqualifications put cops behind computers, not IT. Who saw that coming.

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      Instead, they hire the people who do it.

      In wandering around the entrance to the rabbit hole, I came across the Wikipedia article about The Com, which is a lose umbrella organization that includes many hacker communities, including the one accused of hacking the FBI.

      There’s this:

      The Com is connected to a group of skinheads active in Russia and Ukraine responsible for random attacks on people and acts of murder.[14] Edward Coristine, a high-ranking employee of the DOGE, US government organization, was a former member of The Com.[15]

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        the whole reason that the group that hacked the FBI did it was because the FBI claimed they were part of The Com and they took offense to the claim.

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      3 days ago

      Names/addresses/ages/phone numbers/applications, shit they could have just found the login for one of the hiring groups indeed profiles, lol.