instance. The publication said it has identified the threat actor targeting these instances to be none other than the ShinyHunters hacking group, adding that the same group breached Allianz Life, Qantas and adidas. Responding to BleepingComputer,...

now been identified – and it might not be the hacking collective everyone’s been thinking of, but rather a group called ShinyHunters, a group named after the Pokéman series of video games. The podcast concludes with a discussion of a successful...

may be close, our colleagues in cyber journalism at Bleeping Computer now believe that the hacking group known as ShinyHunters may be behind the 5.7 million-person breach. “A wave of data breaches impacting companies like Qantas, Allianz Life, LVMH, and...

Allianz Life third party that was breached was likely Salesforce, and that it was breached by the infamous hacking group ShinyHunters, and that the same group breached Qantas and Adidas. Qantas was originally believed to have been breached by the...

the incident is unknown, CyberCX executive director Katherine Mansted has raised the possibility that the infamous ShinyHunters hacking group is behind the attack. “It’s open cyber season on luxury retail brands globally,” she said. “The Louis Vuitton...

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...

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...

four French nationals allegedly responsible for running the forum. The alleged hackers operated under the names “ShinyHunters”, “Hollow”, “Noct”, and “Depressed”, and the arrests were made in Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Maritime and Réunion earlier this week....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

One of those other companies appears to be Santander Bank, with the same hacker behind the Ticketmaster breach, ShinyHunters, claiming to have access to the data of 30 million South American customers last week on 30 May. Mark Jones, a senior partner at...

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...

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...

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...

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...