— is facing a range of charges, including wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. Sebastien Raoult was a member of the ShinyHunters hacking group where he operated under the nom de guerre Seyzo Kaizen. Raoult was attempting to travel to Brussels when...

on 3 September, which matches the time frame of the recent email. According to DataBreaches, a known threat actor called ShinyHunters – which takes its name from a Pokemon game – was behind the breach, admitting to the site that they accessed Pizza...

chat room does not appear to have come from our systems,” AT&T said in August 2021. But speaking to Bleeping Computer, ShinyHunters insisted the data was legitimate. “I don’t care if they don’t admit. I’m just selling,” ShinyHunters told...

Global law enforcement agencies led by the FBI have taken control of the infamous BreachForums overnight. The site seizure occurred overnight, with the BreachForums site and Telegram both displaying messages from the FBI. “This website has been taken...

Ireland’s privacy watchdog has commenced an investigation into the major Dell data breach that occurred earlier this month. Last week, Dell customers were informed by the PC hardware manufacturer that its systems had been hacked, and that customer data...

first 200,000 users will receive the latest upgraded version of the member rank,” USDoD said. “There are others, such as ShinyHunters [the other BreachForums admin alongside Baphomet] and his team, who plan to create their own forum. However, I urge you...

announcing a new dark website for the forum. As seen on a BreachForums announcement Telegram page, the forum’s admin, ShinyHunters (Shiny), has announced that the platform has a new onion address. “Still under testing. Please report any bugs you may...

have 1.3 terabytes of customer data stolen from the entertainment giant, as Home Affairs confirms it is on the case. The ShinyHunters hacking group has shared the details of an alleged hack of Ticketmaster and Live Nation and is selling the data for a...

an attack’s fallout could present to small businesses. A cyber attack on Ticketmaster and Live Nation was claimed by the ShinyHunters hacking group. It said it exfiltrated 1.3 terabytes of data belonging to 560 million customers, which it said it would...

Cloud storage company Snowflake says the breach is not its fault, as the ACSC released an alert warning of “increased cyber threat activity regarding Snowflake customers”. Last week’s Ticketmaster data breach has gotten even more complex over the...

the data stolen in the Ticketmaster and Ticketek hacks earlier this month. On 20 June, Sp1d3r – who may be linked to the ShinyHunters hacking group – made two posts just hours apart, complaining in the first one that “Ticketmaster will not respond to...

in ransom to the threat actors behind the attack. According to a report by WIRED, AT&T negotiated with a member of the ShinyHunters threat group through an intermediary called Reddington. Originally, ShinyHunters was asking for a $1 million ransom, but...

that at least one person has been apprehended,” said AT&T. It is unclear who was arrested and whether they were from ShinyHunters – the threat group that was paid the ransom – or Reddington, who was contacted by the hacker believed to be John Erin...

to use legitimate data gathered from these servers to carry out a wide campaign of fraud.” Ticketmaster data breach The ShinyHunters hacking collective made headlines with a data breach that impacted 15 million innocent fans of live music and other...

An individual claiming to be the infamous hacker ShinyHunters has said that the old domain is no longer under their control. The previous administrator of popular clear web hacking community BreachForums has said the forum’s previous domain is...

infiltration by various agencies and other global law enforcement bodies.” Now, forum owner and notorious threat actor ShinyHunters has announced its return, complete with a back-end rewrite to prevent a repeat incident. “We are pleased to report that...

Financially motivated hackers linked to ShinyHunters have been observed using social engineering techniques to gain access to victim networks via a popular customer service and sales platform. A hacking group with intimate knowledge of the Salesforce...

French police make arrests throughout France as US authorities charge British national Kai West, aka IntelBroker. Law enforcement agencies from the United States and France may have put the final nails into the coffin of the infamous hacking community...

to the hackers being arrested – one in France that appears to have put the final nail into BreachForums’ coffin as both ShinyHunters and IntelBroker are now behind bars, and another here in Australia, as the infamous Western Sydney University hacker was...

will officially reopen on July 1st. “First, thank you to those who choose to return and rebuild. But let’s be clear: ShinyHunters and IntelBroker have been arrested. With them, the servers and database were seized, now in the hands of US and French...