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    ‘We Hacked the FBI:’ Hackers Say They Have Data on All FBI Employees

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    2. 404mediaco on

      A high profile hacking group claims it has breached multiple FBI-related services and stolen data “on all FBI employees and applicants.” A representative of the group, called ShinyHunters, told 404 Media the data includes FBI agents’ names, home addresses, phone number, and information on their spouse.

      The data breach could be massively significant and may have all sorts of national security and counterintelligence implications. Criminals from the same ecosystem as ShinyHunters have previously [used hacked data like phone records](https://www.404media.co/hackers-steal-text-and-call-records-of-nearly-all-at-t-customers/) to [track](https://www.404media.co/hackers-mined-at-t-breach-for-data-on-trumps-family-kamala-harris/), intimidate, and harass the FBI agents investigating them. The highly sensitive data could also be a [boon to foreign intelligence agencies](https://www.404media.co/at-t-hacker-tried-to-sell-stolen-data-to-foreign-government/) who want to better understand how one of the most important law enforcement and intelligence agencies in the U.S. operates. And if the data fell into the hands of more criminals, FBI agents and their spouses could face serious threats to their safety.

      The representative provided 404 Media with a sample appearing to contain the personal data of 5,000 FBI employees. That data included an alleged address, phone number, date of birth, and in some cases details on their spouse.

      Read more: [https://www.404media.co/we-hacked-the-fbi-hackers-say-they-have-data-on-all-fbi-employees/](https://www.404media.co/we-hacked-the-fbi-hackers-say-they-have-data-on-all-fbi-employees/)

    3. gill_smoke on

      Please please please tell me this was an AI screw up. They got in based on holes punched for the Models Crash Patel was bragging about.

    4. No-Consequence9392 on

      Shocking , said no one.
      After they fired all the actual security experts and hired Kash’s drinking buddies, barstool sports bros and polymarket players

    5. yepthisismyusername on

      I truly hope the next administration can un-fuck all of the things that this administration has run into the ground.

    6. williamgman on

      Breaking news: Kash Patel is offering one year free credit monitoring for all employees affected by this minor inconvenience.

    8. mabus42 on

      Maybe one of the hackers will then coerce an agent in to leaking all of the unredacted Epstein files. (The ones that the FBI have, that is)

    13. chevalier716 on

      Kind of amazing that 25 years after 9/11 we’re all less safe than we’ve ever been from external threat and yet more surveilled than ever by domestic ones. Oh wait, it was very believable, so much so my idiot college age self saw this coming back then. FBI being hacked is just the latest sign that even the guard house is easy enough to break into.

    16. No-Neighborhood-3212 on

      Lol, Oracle exploit that allowed them to access PII and PHI of government employees that were stored on AWS!

      It’s always the entities you most suspect, huh?

    24. TwilitSky on

      Well that’s dangerous especially for counterintelligence professionals who are seeking spies.

      When asked if ShinyHunters was going to attempt to extort the FBI, the representative said, “what we plan to do is not something I’d call extortion, maybe coercion.”

    26. Round-Medicine2507 on

      Republican government has always been proud to admit they fire their best liberal employees and hire their bribed friends high school graduate. 

    28. spaceocean99 on

      I hate this stuff. “We have all your information,” then we hear nothing else about it. They’ll get paid, found, then many offered a job to help avoid stuff like this.

      If they wanted to do good, they’d out the corrupt assholes within the FBI. Hell, they could get all of the Epstein files and release those as well. Yet, this is what they choose.