that “certain data” may have been accessed without authorisation. Then, only a week later, cyber extortionist group ShinyHunters claimed it had stolen more than 200,000 licence scans from the US state of Florida’s Driver and Vehicle Information...

physical and IP addresses, and auto finance application outcomes.” According to the report, infamous hacking group ShinyHunters is behind the incident, citing a mid-February report that found the group claimed a breach of CarGurus, which saw 1.7 million...

user MajorNelson – the same person who shared the details of a Sony leak last year – comes from a 2021 AT&T hack by ShinyHunters. At that time, the 73,481,539 line database was being auctioned off to the highest bidder, with the option of being...

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...

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...

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,...

today. “School principals are in the process of contacting families and teachers to advise them of the breach.” The ShinyHunters cyber extortion group is behind the incident and is claiming to have compromised millions of students and staff globally,...

and has been engaging in a widespread extortion campaign targeting users of the Oracle E-Business Suite platform, ShinyHunters and its various linked hacking collectives are also involved in the hacking campaign. “In early October 2025 ‘SCATTERED...

and Salesloft Drift pending further investigation,” Google said. There is evidence that the Scattered Spider and ShinyHunters collectives, which appear to have formed some kind of loose hacking alliance, may be behind the hacking campaign. According to...

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....

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...

as well as the Department of Justice emblem and the profile pictures of the two BreachForums admins, Baphomet and ShinyHunters, but edited to appear behind bars. Moving to the site’s Telegram, which displays a similar seizure message, the FBI is...

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...

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...

appears to be a relatively new victim, reporting from DataBreaches.net noted that Kering was revealed as a victim of a ShinyHunters attack some time in 2024. “When did Balenciaga, Brioni, Alexander McQueen or Kering first discover this breach, and how...

10 October Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters shared a PGP-signed message from an individual claiming to be or to represent ShinyHunters soon after the takedown, stating that BreachForums was now officially dead. “BreachForums was seized by the FBI and...

because their members operate within and across them,” Beek said. “We believe, however, that the names Lapsus$ and ShinyHunters are being abused as a ‘marketing brand’ rather than representing the original groups in action. This is because Lapsus$ has...

a threat actor. Earlier this year, GTA V developer Rockstar Games also confirmed a cyber attack, after infamous hackers ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for a breach of cloud data platform Snowflake. The hackers listed Rockstar Games as a victim in...

third-party organisation in question was Salesforce, linking the attack to the wave of cyber attacks performed by the ShinyHunters threat group, potentially even the new Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters hacking supergroup. BleepingComputer said that...