GoKawiilHackers deface FBI jobs website, claim access to agents' home addresses
A hacking group calling itself ShinyHunters defaced the FBI's jobs recruitment website and claims to possess home addresses of FBI agents. The group has demanded that the bureau retract a warning it issued in May about ShinyHunters, giving the FBI a one-week deadline.
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The incident suggests attackers are targeting law enforcement infrastructure directly, which could raise concerns about the safety of federal agents if personal data has genuinely been exposed. ShinyHunters' framing of the demand as 'coercion, not extortion' indicates the group is trying to present its actions as retaliatory rather than criminal, though that characterization comes from the hackers themselves rather than independent verification.
- ShinyHunters defaced the FBI's jobs website and claims to hold agents' home addresses
- The group is demanding the FBI retract a May warning about ShinyHunters within one week
- The hackers describe their action as coercion rather than extortion, a distinction made by the group itself
Source: gizmodo.com, 2026-09-23
Published there as: “Hackers Defaced the FBI Jobs Site and Say They Have Agents’ Home Addresses”
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