Hacking group ShinyHunters says it stole terabytes of sensitive data on FBI employees and job applicants, exploiting a zero-day flaw in Oracle's PeopleSoft software to breach Amazon Web Services' GovCloud. A sample reviewed by Reuters and 404 Media reportedly includes names, addresses, birthdates and Social Security numbers for about 5,000 employees, and the group also claimed responsibility for briefly hijacking the FBI's website. The FBI confirmed it is investigating a claimed compromise of the FBIJobs.gov portal and possible exposure of employee personal information.
engadget.com
· 2026-09-23
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.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-22
President Trump's latest federal financial disclosure shows 1,156 securities transactions in July, valued between roughly $79 million and $270 million combined. The biggest moves were July 20 sales of between $5 million and $25 million each of Microsoft and Amazon shares, alongside a $1-5 million sale of Oracle stock and a purchase of $500,001-$1 million in Nvidia. Days later, on July 23, he reported buying smaller amounts of Microsoft and Amazon.
cnbc.com
· 2026-09-22
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.
bleepingcomputer.com
· 2026-09-22
Major tech firms including Microsoft, Oracle and Google reported unprecedented numbers of security patches this year, with Microsoft issuing 974 CVE fixes this month alone and Oracle shipping 1,448 patches in July compared to 309 a year earlier. Analysts tracking cve.icu counted 66,401 confirmed vulnerabilities as of this week, nearly double last September's tally, a jump attributed largely to AI tools now used for automated bug discovery.
wired.com
· 2026-09-19
Investors are increasingly scrutinizing whether the massive data center buildout tied to Anthropic and OpenAI's growth can continue at its current pace, given uncertainty around future AI model progress. Companies like Oracle, GE Vernova, Caterpillar, Vertiv, Nebius, CoreWeave, Dell and Hewlett Packard Enterprise have all made major bets tied to sustained AI infrastructure demand.
cnbc.com
· 2026-09-15
Research led by former SEC chief economist Susan Wachter finds that hyperscalers—Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta and Oracle—must boost their own productivity nearly threefold by 2030 to cover the cost of the roughly $5 trillion they're projected to spend on AI infrastructure over four years. Current AI revenues sit around $150-200 billion annually, far short of the buildout's scale, according to former SEC chair Gary Gensler.
technologyreview.com
· 2026-09-15
Oracle began a fresh round of layoffs, notifying affected employees by email early this morning. The company is trimming its workforce to help cover the enormous costs of building out AI infrastructure.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-14
Oracle has begun another round of layoffs, sending termination emails to staff as early as 6 a.m. Monday as part of its ongoing fiscal 2026 restructuring. The company's workforce already shrank by about 21,000 people this fiscal year, and Oracle has now increased its restructuring cost estimate by $700 million to roughly $2.8 billion, though the exact number of newly affected employees remains undisclosed.
techtimes.co.uk
· 2026-09-14
Oracle announced Saturday that executive chairman Larry Ellison has called off a plan to sell 50 million of his shares, worth roughly $7.5 billion, that had been disclosed in an earlier regulatory filing. The company said no shares were sold under the plan and that Ellison has no other plans to sell Oracle stock, without explaining the reversal.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-13
Larry Ellison has scrapped a 10b5-1 trading plan that would have allowed him to sell up to 50 million Oracle shares, worth about $7.5 billion at current prices. The plan, adopted June 22 and set to expire Oct. 24, had been disclosed in a regulatory filing just a day before its cancellation, and no shares were ever sold under it. Oracle says Ellison has no other plans to divest any of his stock.
cnbc.com
· 2026-09-12
Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison called off a prearranged plan to sell as many as 50 million shares of Oracle stock, a transaction that could have been worth up to $7.5 billion. Ellison confirmed that no shares were actually sold under the arrangement before it was withdrawn.
wsj.com
· 2026-09-12
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