After Breach, FBI Hits Back at ShinyHunters: 'We Know How to Find You'
He says the agency partnered with Dutch police to arrest one of the alleged leaders of ShinyHunters, a 24-year-old named Pepijn van der Stap, Reuters reports.According to Dutch local press, van der Stap was arrested on Sept. 15, before ShinyHunters announced it had stolen data from the FBI, including sensitive details on federal agents. Still, Leatherman's video addresses the “remaining members of ShinyHunters,” and suggests that van der Stap is ready to spill identifying details about the group’s membership.
- ▪He says the agency partnered with Dutch police to arrest one of the alleged leaders of ShinyHunters, a 24-year-old named Pepijn van der Stap, Reuters reports.According to Dutch local press, van der Stap was arrested on Sept.
- ▪15, before ShinyHunters announced it had stolen data from the FBI, including sensitive details on federal agents.
- ▪Still, Leatherman's video addresses the “remaining members of ShinyHunters,” and suggests that van der Stap is ready to spill identifying details about the group’s membership.
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Facing an embarrassing breach, the FBI is sending its own message to the hacking gang responsible, ShinyHunters, claiming federal investigators are closing in on them."The longer you stay in this, the more we learn about you," the FBI’s assistant director for the cyber division, Brett Leatherman, said in a Tuesday video in which he urged the group to turn themselves in. He says the agency partnered with Dutch police to arrest one of the alleged leaders of ShinyHunters, a 24-year-old named Pepijn van der Stap, Reuters reports.According to Dutch local press, van der Stap was arrested on Sept. 15, before ShinyHunters announced it had stolen data from the FBI, including sensitive details on federal agents.
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