ShinyHunters Leader Busted

ShinyHunters Leader Busted

Author: David Shipley September 30, 2026 Duration: 14:00

FBI Warns Staff Assume ShinyHunters Stole Everyone's Data; Clop Dismisses Rival Hack; Kiteworks Restores Service

Cybersecurity Today host David Shipley reports the FBI has told employees to assume ShinyHunters accessed the personal information of every FBI employee after the fbijobs.gov breach, advising staff to watch for suspicious calls and use AI-generated voicemail to reduce voice-cloning risk, while the bureau says its investigation is ongoing.

ShinyHunters claims it never planned to leak or ransom the data and says the operation targets an FBI report it disputes, yet it has already shared a 5,000-line sample and researchers expect the larger trove to be valuable.

Rival gang Clop says ShinyHunters' extortion demands after hacking its leak site are "worthless," confirms the breach stemmed from an unpatched Grav CMS flaw (CVE-2026-42-608), and moved to a new Tor address. 

The episode also covers Dutch police arresting an alleged ShinyHunters leader as sources suggest a new leader, and Kiteworks bringing services back online after patching a critical bug and finding no compromise.

00:00 FBI Breach Fallout
01:21 Protecting Agents From Scams
02:31 ShinyHunters Walkback
03:36 Data Sample Spreads
05:20 Clop Versus ShinyHunters
06:55 Grav CMS Vulnerability
07:53 Dutch Arrest And New Boss
10:48 FBI Cyber Division Warning
11:56 Kiteworks Back Online
13:33 Wrap Up And Sign Off


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