After ShinyHunters claimed a breach against the FBI and defaced its website, a suspected member of the cybercrime gang was detained in Jordan.
In this episode of "What We Missed," Dark Reading's Rob Wright and Alex Culafi discuss some of the recent news events and topics that didn't make it into the publication, starting with ShinyHunters' supposed breach against the FBI.
The group recently claimed, without evidence, that it obtained data belonging to nearly every FBI employee and job applicant. This purportedly happened as part of a breach of a third-party jobs portal used by the FBI, in which the gang vandalized the site and claimed to have stolen the aforementioned data.
Earlier this month, Jordanian authorities detained a suspected member of ShinyHunters; as first reported by Reuters, the alleged member is apparently cooperating with officials. The FBI has responded aggressively to this recent incident involving the bureau, cooperating with Dutch authorities to arrest another suspected member of the gang last month.
ShinyHunters, a loose collective of financially motivated threat actors, has claimed a swath of attacks in recent months against entities including ReliaQuest, Instructure, and even fellow threat group Cl0p.
Also discussed on this episode: Hackers gained access to a reportedly unencrypted Defense Manpower Data Center file-sharing system for roughly nine months, from October 2025 until this past July 16, exposing Pentagon records on nearly 2.8 million living people and 294,000 deceased people tied to the US military; and the Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure (DIVD) disclosed a hack involving several unidentified zero-day vulnerabilities.
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What We Missed With Rob Wright & Alex Culafi: Full Transcript
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