Hackaday2026-10-02 14:00:22

This Week in Security: ShinyHunters Won’t Dox the FBI, Pentagon Data Stolen, and OBS Vulnerable

404 Media reports that the ShinyHunters group who stole multiple terabytes of FBI employee data say they do not plan to release the data.

Summary

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This is a brief wire summary, the full story (linked below) has the complete details.

KazaSec's take

Incidents like this rarely start with the headline event itself, they usually trace back to an exposed remote-access endpoint, an unpatched perimeter system, or a credential phished weeks earlier. The organizations that recover fastest are the ones that tested their defenses and their incident response plan before they needed them.

Coverage details

Source: Hackaday
Published: 2026-10-02 14:00:22
Author: mike kershaw
Category: technology

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