FBI Staff Memo Reportedly Assumes ShinyHunters Stole ‘All FBI Employees’ Personal Data
If you work for the FBI, your employer says you should just assume your personal information was stolen by hackers, according to an internal memo reviewed by the New York Times. “We are operating under the premise that the threat actor is also exfiltrating [personally identifiable information] of all F.B.I. employees,” the memo apparently says. The humiliating ShinyHunters hack, originally reported on Tuesday of last week, was a bit like working for Orkin and finding out that you and all your coworkers have had your personal data stolen by termites.
- ▪If you work for the FBI, your employer says you should just assume your personal information was stolen by hackers, according to an internal memo reviewed by the New York Times.
- ▪“We are operating under the premise that the threat actor is also exfiltrating [personally identifiable information] of all F.B.I. employees,” the memo apparently says.
- ▪The humiliating ShinyHunters hack, originally reported on Tuesday of last week, was a bit like working for Orkin and finding out that you and all your coworkers have had your personal data stolen by termites.
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If you work for the FBI, your employer says you should just assume your personal information was stolen by hackers, according to an internal memo reviewed by the New York Times. “We are operating under the premise that the threat actor is also exfiltrating [personally identifiable information] of all F.B.I. employees,” the memo apparently says. The humiliating ShinyHunters hack, originally reported on Tuesday of last week, was a bit like working for Orkin and finding out that you and all your coworkers have had your personal data stolen by termites. The initial hack caused the FBI jobs portal to display a banner saying “This site has been seized by ShinyHunters.” ShinyHunters told 404 Media, who broke the news of the attack, “We hacked the FBI.
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