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...

impact analysis and bolstered its security. Google Threat Intelligence identified the group as UNC6040, better known as ShinyHunters, which BleepingComputer has already identified as having been behind a widespread Salesforce instance campaign....

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...

— 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...

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...

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...

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...

has responded to claims made by the hackers behind last week’s Instructure education breach. The cyber extortion group ShinyHunters recently published a list of more than 2,700 schools, colleges, and other entities in the education sector allegedly...

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....

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...

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.

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

hundreds of companies via their Salesforce instances. Here’s what you can do to protect yours. Since late last year, the ShinyHunters group has been targeting a raft of companies via their Salesforce instances, stealing data and extorting victims before...

have been caught up in a global IT breach, with possibly lifelong impacts for students. Between 3 and 5 May 2026, the ShinyHunters cyber extortion group claimed responsibility for a data breach of cloud education provider Instructure and its Canvas...