Scoop: I spoke to Pryx, a.k.a. Adem El Adeb, friend of ShinyHunters suspect Saif Al-Din Khader. El Adeb said Khader told him he was going to hack the FBI in *early* Sept. which (if true) pushes our timeline back a bit. El Adeb says he told Khader he was "crazy." www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

EXCLUSIVE: Friend of suspected FBI data thief says he warned 'crazy' teen not to hack bureau

A friend of the suspected thief of a massive cache of personal data from the FBI says he begged the teenager not to do it.

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The F.B.I. has arrested a man in Pennsylvania on suspicion of carrying out the computer hack that stole sensitive information about thousands of F.B.I. employees, according to two people familiar with the matter who spoke with The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/u...

F.B.I. Arrests Key Suspect in ShinyHunters Hack of Its Own Agents’ Data

The hack left the nation’s premier law enforcement agency racing to respond as both the victim and the investigator of a murky group that threatened to expose agents’ personal information.

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FBI Director Kash ​Patel said on ‌Friday that the bureau has ​arrested another ​person tied to the ⁠ShinyHunters hacking ​group www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi...

FBI Director Patel says bureau has arrested another person tied to ShinyHunters hackers

FBI Director Kash ​Patel said on ‌Friday that the bureau has ​arrested another ​person tied to the ⁠ShinyHunters hacking ​group.

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NEW: TikTok creators seeking affiliate kickbacks are promoting cheap Meta AI Glasses dupes by claiming that the knockoffs don't feature "annoying" indicator lights that signal when wearers are filming. “I’m recording you right now and you probably can’t even tell..." futurism.com/artificial-i...

Influencers Are Promoting Cheap Dupes of Meta AI Glasses that Don't Have the "Annoying Blinking Light" When They Record

Creators are promoting cheaper dupes for Meta smart glasses. Often, the lack of any recording light is central to their pitch.

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A U.S. senator is demanding answers from Trump Mobile after a ransomware group hacked and leaked the personal data of 3,615 customers. straightarrowne.ws/4hOkQ2p

Straight Arrow's Mikael Thalen spoke with Anthony Sistilli who said the visit lasted about 30 minutes. “Their concern was that mapping police movements could put officers at risk and help people committing crimes,” Sistilli told Thalen. Full interview: https://ow.ly/l35A50ZVAh8

NEW: I spoke with a Canadian YouTuber who was visited by police after building a Flock-style camera designed to record the license plates of cop cars. 'My impression was that they weren’t familiar with many of the controversies or examples of misuse in the United States.' san.com/cc/he-built-...

He built his own Flock-style camera to track police. The police didn’t like it

A YouTuber was visited by law enforcement after he built a Flock-style camera designed to record the license plates of police vehicles.

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👀 "Trump Mobile’s latest problem: Hackers just released customer information" @mikaelthalen.bsky.social for @san.com

Trump Mobile’s latest problem: Hackers just released customer information

A newly established ransomware gang appears to have hacked Trump Mobile, resulting in the exposure of personal data for 3,615 customers.

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"I got scammed by Trump Mobile and all I got was this lousy data breach."

Mikael Thalen@mikaelthalen.bsky.social · 5d ago

NEW: Trump Mobile appears to have been hacked, resulting in the leak of personal data on 3,615 customers. A person in the data confirmed to me that he spent $100 on a Trump phone last year but never received a device. san.com/cc/trump-mob...

NEW: Trump Mobile appears to have been hacked, resulting in the leak of personal data on 3,615 customers. A person in the data confirmed to me that he spent $100 on a Trump phone last year but never received a device. san.com/cc/trump-mob...

Trump Mobile’s latest problem: Hackers just released customer information

A newly established ransomware gang appears to have hacked Trump Mobile, resulting in the exposure of personal data for 3,615 customers.

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Huge scoop: An alleged key member of ShinyHunters has been detained in Jordan and *is cooperating,* sources tell us Just broke on @reuters.com. More details TK. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

EXCLUSIVE: ShinyHunters hacker in FBI data theft detained in Jordan, cooperating with bureau, sources say

A key member of the ShinyHunters hacking group, ‌which claims to have stolen data on every FBI employee, was detained this week in Jordan, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters. Two of ​t...

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NEW: The cybercrime group ShinyHunters tells me it took down its website on Wednesday, but denies it had anything to do with the fallout from its breach of the FBI. The group has now launched a new dark web leak site, complete with added protections against DDoS attacks. san.com/cc/hunted-by...

Hunted by FBI, ShinyHunters hackers deny website disruption related to investigation

The cybercrime group ShinyHunters says disruptions to its dark web leak site are unrelated to its breach of the FBI.

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Hackers have stolen the personnel records of millions of military service members following a months-long breach of a Pentagon server. san.com/cc/pentagon-...

It looks like ShinyHunters may have launched a new dark net leak site, with a new captcha system, after its original site went offline two days ago following its breach of the FBI.

NEW: An iPhone hacking company claims it can freeze the iPhone in a state that makes it easier for cops to access data. The iPhone has an automatic reboot feature that reverts the device to a state where data is harder to extract. This would defeat that feature. www.404media.co/cops-can-byp...

Cops Can Bypass iPhone’s Automatic Reboot to Get Into Locked Phones, Leaked Video Claims

Magent Forensics, the owner of the GrayKey phone unlocking tool, says it can bypass an iPhone rebooting feature that was locking cops out.

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Cyber-criminals who hacked the FBI say they have medical data for thousands of its special agents, such as blood and urine test results. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Special agents blood and urine test results stolen in FBI hack

Experts say the hack could leave agents vulnerable to scams, blackmail and targeted attacks.

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A new map published Wednesday by a cybersecurity researcher reveals Flock’s nationwide reach is even bigger than previously known. Now, Flock is trying to get that map wiped from the internet. buff.ly/IlMa7hN

New: from 404 Media. The catastrophic FBI hack also exposed the FBI's own hacking unit. The Remote Operations Unit is a highly secretive part of the FBI, responsible for making tools to break into peoples' devices. Some of their names and addresses are in the data www.404media.co/fbi-hack-exp...

FBI Hack Exposed FBI’s Own Hacking Unit

The FBI's Remote Operations Unit (ROU) is a highly secretive team of hackers making exploits and tools to break into target’s devices. Some of its members just got exposed.

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Scoop: Data allegedly stolen from the FBI provides sensitive assignment descriptions for named employees, exposing members of the "China criminal enterprise unit” & “Russia Operations Section" among others. One ex-employee described it as a foreign intel "goldmine." www.reuters.com/world/hacked...

EXCLUSIVE: Hacked FBI data has sensitive information about employees’ intelligence roles

FBI data allegedly stolen by the hacking group ShinyHunters carries granular detail about scores of bureau officials’ job assignments, including sensitive work ‌against Chinese spies, Russian intellig...

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DHS fusion centers are monitoring anti-Flock activists and an online service known as SparrowMap, which uses volunteer cameras to track the police, according to an intelligence report obtained by Reason. reason.com/2026/09/23/h...

"We're sniffing out site updates for you!" is definitely one way to say "we were hacked and thousands of FBI agents and applicants had their information stolen." Those federal puppers are fucking adorable though. www.404media.co/we-hacked-th...

The ShinyHunters hacker group just released this PSA, which is addressed in part to FBI Director Kash Patel, to their dark web leak site. ShinyHunters, according to 404 Media, appear to have hacked the FBI. The group says the agency made "substantial false allegations regarding our organization."

New: hackers say they have personal data on all FBI employees and spouses. I got a sample of 5,000 alleged employees, including name, physical address, phone number, and in some cases spouses. Could be a massive national security and counterintelligence risk www.404media.co/we-hacked-th...

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

A sample of 5,000 alleged agents seen by 404 Media includes names, addresses, phone numbers, and details on FBI employees' spouses.

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The D.C. Police Union filed a complaint against the department after internal affairs used Flock cameras to track officers suspected of misconduct. san.com/cc/union-cri...

Flock cameras are riddled with security vulnerabilities and hard-coded credentials. Here's my analysis of today's @ddosecrets.org Flock leak micahflee.com/flock-camera...

Flock cameras are riddled with security vulnerabilities and hard-coded credentials

This morning, DDoSecrets published an exciting new dataset: Filesystem images of the partitions from an in-use Flock ALPR camera. 404 Media and Wired published a joint investigation into it. I downloa...

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A hacker collective pulled down a Flock camera and dumped its data. The files included thousands of videos and logs showing that the device captured 1.6 million images of 50,000 vehicles in 21 days www.wired.com/story/hacker...

Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera. Its Data Shows How the System Really Works

A hacker collective pulled down a Flock camera and dumped its data. The files included thousands of videos and logs showing that the device captured 1.6 million images of 50,000 vehicles in 21 days.

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NEW: The ShinyHunters ransomware gang has leaked more than a half-million files from the Florida DMV, including scans of passports, Social Security cards, driver's licenses, 
resident alien cards, vehicle titles, refugee travel documents and permanent resident cards. san.com/cc/ransomwar...

Ransomware gang leaks more than half a million files after Florida DMV hack

Scans of passports, driver’s licenses and Social Security cards are among the more than 500k files leaked after a hack of the Florida DMV.

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Hackers have exposed personal information about thousands of people on probation and parole — and about the agents tasked with tracking them. san.com/cc/hack-of-p...

VeriTracks (215.29 MB) VeriTracks is a web-based electronic monitoring, supervision and management platform used to track offenders in real-time with GPS, RF, and alcohol monitoring devices. ddosecrets.org/article/veri... Help us keep publishing: donorbox.org/ddosecrets

NEW: The hacker group "Internet Yiff Machine" has breached a platform used to monitor those on parole & probation, exposing details on thousands being monitored & the agents monitoring them, as part of a campaign to disrupt "the police & prison industrial complex.” san.com/cc/hack-of-p...

Hack of probation, parole monitoring firm is part of campaign against law enforcement

Hackers have exposed personal information about thousands of people on probation and parole — and about the agents tasked with tracking them.

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