Hackers Hack the FBI’s Hacking Unit: Report
New details have emerged about ShinyHunters’ hack of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), including more info on the types of officials caught up in the breach. Some of the stolen records appear to identify members of the bureau’s secretive hacking unit. 404 Media reported Wednesday that it found three entries that referenced the FBI’s Remote Operations Unit.
- ▪New details have emerged about ShinyHunters’ hack of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), including more info on the types of officials caught up in the breach.
- ▪Some of the stolen records appear to identify members of the bureau’s secretive hacking unit.
- ▪404 Media reported Wednesday that it found three entries that referenced the FBI’s Remote Operations Unit.
2 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 19 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: lean left. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
- ▪ FBI Hack Exposed FBI’s Own Hacking Unit — 404 Media
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| Publication time | Thu, 24 Sep 2026 17:00:48 +0000 |
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New details have emerged about ShinyHunters’ hack of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), including more info on the types of officials caught up in the breach. Some of the stolen records appear to identify members of the bureau’s secretive hacking unit. 404 Media reported Wednesday that it found three entries that referenced the FBI’s Remote Operations Unit. The outlet says that the records involving the unit exposed “each person’s address, a list of phone numbers for them, and in some cases the name of their spouses and their phone numbers.” 404 Media said that when it searched one official’s phone number using the breached-data intelligence platform Darkside, it found previously leaked information linking that person to the Secret Service.
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