Joseph Cox
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They say that they have data on all FBI employees and applicants.
Yeah, so Shiny Hunters, most people have probably not heard of this hacking group, but they are quite prolific now.
They uh breach all sorts of companies all the time.
They actually do target government agencies and organizations as well.
What they're saying they've done is that they've breached this website you laid out uh at the top of the show, and they say that they have data on all
All FBI employees and applicants.
And that would include, you know, pretty sensitive stuff like those FBI agents and officials' names, physical addresses, phone numbers, and I think really concerningly information on who their spouses or their parents might be as well.
Yeah, so Shiny Hunters comes broadly from a very large community of hackers and cyber criminals that do sometimes turn to physical violence.
I've covered this sort of community for a long time, and sometimes it involves throwing a brick through a window or firing a gun at somebody's window.
And these criminal groups have targeted law enforcement investigators before, including the F.
FBI and potentially their family members as well.
The idea that with this data, these cyber criminals or other criminals who may get hold of the data, they could then target FBI officials or their spouses for extortion, intimidation, retaliation, all sorts of things.
It is basically a roadmap for criminals to follow to find targets they may
Want to mess with.
There is also the nation state threat here as well.
I was going through the information and it includes the job titles of these FBI personnel.
I found very sensitive jobs, such as, you know, working on surveillance infrastructure and techniques and interception.
And then Reuters found there are people in there specifically working to investigate Russia and China.
You can only really imagine how vast.
how valuable this data would be to the Russian or the Chinese state.
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