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ShinyHunters claims theft of FBI agent and applicant data

Hacking group ShinyHunters says it breached FBI systems and stole personal data on thousands of agents and job applicants, including names, home addresses and phone numbers. 404 Media reported the group first breached an Oracle PeopleSoft HR server before pivoting into an Amazon-hosted government cloud, and the FBI's job application portals appeared defaced and offline. ShinyHunters says the hack is not financially motivated and is demanding the FBI remove a report containing what it calls false allegations about the group.

ShinyHunters claims new PeopleSoft zero-day used to breach FBI systems

The ShinyHunters extortion group told BleepingComputer it exploited a new remote-code-execution flaw in Oracle PeopleSoft to access FBI systems and move into FBI-managed AWS GovCloud infrastructure, claiming theft of 2-3TB of data including employee, applicant, HR and Medlink records. The group shared a screenshot showing the FBI Jobs site defaced with its logo and a message asserting sensitive PII/PHI had been stolen, and said the FBI quickly took the affected systems offline.

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