"ShinyHunters, a prolific cybercriminal group known for large-scale data theft and extortion, says it has breached the FBI and stolen data on thousands of agents and applicants. The hackers made the claim on their dark web leak site, which TechCrunch reviewed, saying they had stolen “sensitive data on almost all FBI agents and individuals who filed an application with the FBI for a job.”

404 Media first reported on the breach after receiving a sample of the stolen names, home addresses, and phone numbers of FBI agents and their spouses, and verifying a portion of the stolen data against public records. The hackers say their hack is “not financially motivated,” and are demanding that the FBI remove a report that they say contains false allegations about the group.

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This is the second known breach of an FBI system this year after unidentified hackers broke into one of the agency’s systems for managing real-time wiretaps and foreign intelligence-gathering warrants, which could have identified targets of the agency’s surveillance. Separately, FBI director Kash Patel also had his personal email account hacked and leaked by an Iran-backed hacking group called Handala in retaliation for U.S.-led strikes against Iran."

Their application site was also taken down lmao