Infamous hacking group ShinyHunters claims to have stolen data on every FBI employee and applicant, and defaced the bureau’s jobs website to prove it. The hackers claim to have breached the FBI by exploiting Oracle’s Peoplesoft platform.
\n\n“We hacked the FBI. We hold data on all FBI employees and applicants,” a representative for the group told 404 Media. The claim came alongside the defacement of apply.fbijobs.gov on Tuesday, which a representative said was carried out Monday night. The FBI jobs site and its Special Agent Applicant Portal were listed as “currently unavailable” at the time of writing, with the site itself displaying the message: “Apply.fbijobs.gov and the Special Agent Applicant Portal are currently unavailable.”
\n\nThe defacement message was styled after a law enforcement seizure notice. It read “this site has been seized by ShinyHunters,” then claimed a far broader compromise than the website alone: “All FBI data was compromised including PII/PHI [personally identifiable information and protected health information] on incumbent and former FBI employees and all applicant information. We have a lot more than we claim here.”
\n\n404 Media reviewed a sample of the alleged stolen data covering 5,000 purported agents, including names, home addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth…
Original source: https://www.breitbart.com/tech/
