ShinyHunters tells The Reg: We hacked the FBI to 'protect our business'
So it hacked the FBI to make a statement, the group told The Register.“It’s a game and it’s the world we live in,” a ShinyHunters spokesperson told us. “We are just protecting our business as any other business would do. It’s about who does their job better.”On Friday, the FBI confirmed the breach to The Register, after earlier in the week saying the bureau was investigating ShinyHunters’ claims.
- ▪So it hacked the FBI to make a statement, the group told The Register.“It’s a game and it’s the world we live in,” a ShinyHunters spokesperson told us.
- ▪“We are just protecting our business as any other business would do.
- ▪It’s about who does their job better.”On Friday, the FBI confirmed the breach to The Register, after earlier in the week saying the bureau was investigating ShinyHunters’ claims.
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| Original publisher | The Register |
| Canonical URL | https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/09/25/shinyhunters-tells-the-reg-we-hacked-the-fbi-to-protect-our-business/5299250 |
| Publication time | Fri, 25 Sep 2026 20:23:31 +0200 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-25T20:35:22.788Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-25T20:35:22.788Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | aMkE7kDwilIV · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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(function() { let windowUrl = window.location.href; windowUrl = windowUrl.substring(windowUrl.indexOf('?') + 1); let messageElement = document.querySelector('.shareableMessage'); if (windowUrl && windowUrl.includes('code') && windowUrl.includes('expires')) { messageElement.style.display = 'block'; } })(); cyber-crime ShinyHunters tells The Reg: We hacked the FBI to 'protect our business' EXCLUSIVE Data theft and extortion biz, that is Jessica Lyons Jessica Lyons Cybersecurity Editor Published fri 25 Sep 2026 // 19:23 UTC READ MORE Fake Google Security Team ad says 'no script reading' in voice phishing - then prints the script now Crooks use fake desktop apps to fool HR staff into giving them remote access 1 hour ago Bitget blames North Korea for $387.5M crypto wallet raid 2 hours ago…
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