A 26-year-old admits to stealing the data of millions of individuals during a widely reported months-long hacking spree. A 26-year-old Canadian man arrested in October 2024 pleaded guilty last week to a string of data breaches targeting compromised...

said it was told that the hack was separate from a recent alleged breach of Telus Digital, which was claimed by ShinyHunters. It is currently not publicly known which threat actor launched the recent Crunchyroll attack.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

to BleepingComputer, the threat actor behind the Salesforce breach, which has affected a number of organisations now, is ShinyHunters. The group has been using phishing and social engineering to gain access to credentials and accounts, before stealing...

known as Scattered Spider may be behind the attack, though later investigations have pointed to a different group, ShinyHunters. In total, nearly 6 million customers were thought to be affected. Mullen also noted the $90 million fine and $120 million...

that aside, the loose structure of the group – thought to be an amalgamation of three similarly loose hacking groups: ShinyHunters, Lapsus$, and Scattered Spider – makes attribution difficult. “Looking ahead, ReliaQuest expects Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters...

information, phone numbers, and physical addresses – was posted as punishment for the arrests of hackers with links to ShinyHunters and IntelBroker. 5. Bouygues Telecom France’s third-largest telco disclosed it had fallen victim to a cyber attack in...

Instructure/Canvas breach, which saw schools across the country impacted by a third-party breach perpetrated by the ShinyHunters cyber extortion group, one finding is particularly galling. According to the Audit Office, while 98 per cent of schools use...

cyber disruption or violence”. The Com, it is believed, is thought to have links to cyber extortion groups such as ShinyHunters and other hacking collectives. “These online groups go hunting for victims on social media or online games, and many victims...

and the patch becomes a planned event instead of an emergency. Planned does not mean optional. “A month ago, the ShinyHunters gang went back to PeopleSoft servers whose owners had relied on a WAF rule instead of patching, and got past it by changing one...

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.