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Jordanian teen 'Rey' detained by FBI amid ShinyHunters extortion of Boeing spin-off

A Jordanian teenager known as 'Rey,' identified by KrebsOnSecurity as Saif Al-din Khader, was detained and is reportedly cooperating with the FBI to identify other members of the ShinyHunters hacking group. The detention occurred while ShinyHunters was extorting a business unit recently spun off from Boeing, and came weeks after Rey took over the group's operations following the arrest of another member in the Netherlands, boasting about breaching an FBI site and extorting the ransomware group Cl0p via an Oracle PeopleSoft vulnerability.

krebsonsecurity.com · 2026-10-07

Dutch police arrest reformed hacker Pepijn van der Stap in ShinyHunters probe

Dutch authorities this month arrested Pepijn van der Stap, 23, a previously convicted cybercriminal from Almere and Lelystad, on suspicion of assisting ShinyHunters with data thefts and extortion schemes. Van der Stap was convicted in 2023 for hacks under the alias 'Umbreon' that prosecutors said netted between €1.5 million and €2.7 million, and he served part of a four-year sentence before his release in December 2025. He had since presented himself publicly as reformed, working in offensive security at the Dutch firm Neo Security.

krebsonsecurity.com · 2026-09-28