— 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...

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,...

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...

for all the wrong reasons over the last seven or so days, following a comprehensive breach of its Canvas platform by the ShinyHunters cyber extortion group. Millions of students and educators have had their personal details compromised, and the Canvas...

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...

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...

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...

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...