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Inside the Devastating Hack of the F.B.I.

September 30, 2026·23 min·5-min readnarrativenews
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A loose collective of criminal hackers known as Shiny Hunters breached the FBI’s job portal, stealing highly sensitive personal and professional data of tens of thousands of current and former agents. Despite initially threatening to publish the data unless the FBI retracted a public warn

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Dustin Volz

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