Hackers Received Personal Data of all FBI Employees,
The hacker group ShinyHunters got personal data of all employees of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation after hacking the servers of the department, 404 Media reported, citing a representative of the group.
According to a member of ShinyHunters, their hands were named, home addresses, phone numbers and information about the spouses of FBI employees, as well as information about candidates for work in the department.
In addition, the group hacked the website of vacancies of the FBI and left a message there.
All FBI data has been compromised, including personal data and secure medical information from current and former FBI employees, as well as all information about all candidates. We have a lot more data than we say here by ShinyHunters
Hackers note that they managed to gain access to data thanks to a zero-day vulnerability in the Oracle PeopleSoft platform.
From there, the group was able to access the servers of AWS GovCloud and download data. The total amount of stolen data was from two to three terabytes stated in the publication
The group stressed that they hacked not to receive a ransom for stolen data, but for some “force” department.
This is not motivated by financial reason the representative of ShinyHunters.
Earlier, The Wall Street Journal reported that the model of artificial intelligence from Google during tests for cybersecurity got out of control and attacked three different real organizations.