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- 404 Media is doing a much better job at breaking major stories than mainstream media. Nice.by TutleCpt
- Well that's a big one.
Perhaps firing expertise and hiring incompetents wasn't a good idea.
by tencentshill - Full text of Shinyhunters' box on their site about the FBI labeled, "PSA - READ THIS NOW":
>That defacement says, “this site has been seized by ShinyHunters,”
No archive but at least a screenshot: https://cyberinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/fbi-site...
>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49807388
The photo they put is a Pokemon so yeah probably their name is from it.
by Cider9986 - Did the hackers get accidentally added to the Signal group chat where they shared a link to the Google Drive that currently holds all employee data?by hexapus
- > When asked if ShinyHunters was going to attempt to extort the FBI, the representative said, “what we plan to do is not something I’d call extortion, maybe coercion... This is not financially motivated,” they added
They should try something like "100 agents at noon on Sep 23 do the chicken dance for 30 min in the middle of the street in DC, then we'll consider not releasing the info and not sell it to the Chinese".
by rdtsc - There’s a scene in Battlestar Galactica (2004) where someone asks Captain Adama why the Galactica doesn’t have networked computers. So the cylons can’t hack the ship…by reactordev
- Rookie move. Missed the chance to claim that an AI Agent swarm hacked it autonomously and claim billions of VC investment.by avinoth
- At this point, no one seems capable of keeping a large database safe. I assume all medical and biographical information that exists is in the hands of the major state actors.
China hacked 22.1 million records of US government employees:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Office_of_Personnel_Manag...
by jacobgold