FBI agent details hacked.....
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peterperkins

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3,453 posts

273 months

Thursday 24th September
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Hackers claim to have stolen details of all of the FBI's agents.

"The group, Shiny Hunters, says it has every agent's name, role, badge number and personal details including home address, phone numbers and spouse information."

A total disaster for the US and its allies if it turns out to be true!
It could certainly cost many lives.. frown

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9n74574elljo


Rusty Old-Banger

7,861 posts

244 months

Thursday 24th September
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What a silly, almost suicidal admission to make in public. Trump isn't the sort to hold back in ordering something drastic/expensive in tracking these hackers down.

No ideas for a name

3,286 posts

117 months

Thursday 24th September
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Rusty Old-Banger said:
What a silly, almost suicidal admission to make in public. Trump isn't the sort to hold back in ordering something drastic/expensive in tracking these hackers down.
It is probably, in reality not trackable - particularly after the event.
Even with decent logs, the closest they might get would be someone who isn't involved, but happened to be running something like a tor node whilst watching some sort of special interest movie.

Lesson: Don't put possibly life critical stuff on other people's servers.

Frik

13,692 posts

274 months

Thursday 24th September
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Luckily they have someone really competent running the FBI these days. Someone with decades of experience, who shuns the limelight and instead just works hard and gets the job done. I'm sure they'll deal with this competently.

Oh, wait a minute. Scratch that.

williamp

20,464 posts

304 months

Thursday 24th September
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?? The perosn at the top wont be responsible for their cyber security,

Funk

27,798 posts

240 months

Thursday 24th September
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Well it couldn't possibly be linked in any way to the US gutting CISA. No chance, impossible.

CloudStuff

4,271 posts

135 months

Thursday 24th September
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Not the first time, sure the chinese hacked fbi staff details a decade ago, or so.

catso

16,540 posts

298 months

Thursday 24th September
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Rusty Old-Banger said:
Trump isn't the sort to hold back in ordering something drastic/expensive in tracking these hackers down.
Unless there is a link to Russia?

captain_cynic

17,617 posts

126 months

Thursday 24th September
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Rusty Old-Banger said:
What a silly, almost suicidal admission to make in public. Trump isn't the sort to hold back in ordering something drastic/expensive in tracking these hackers down.
Because he's been so successful thus far... I don't think they're worried at all.

This is the end result of DOGE and the gutting of talent out of the US govt in favour of Trump Loyalists. Whoda thunk that replacing people who knew what they were doing with Kash Patel's lackeys would result in a huge security breach.

skyebear

1,346 posts

37 months

Thursday 24th September
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Americans must be sick of all the winning.

wombleh

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153 months

Thursday 24th September
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CloudStuff said:
Not the first time, sure the chinese hacked fbi staff details a decade ago, or so.
Yea OPM hack lost details of all the security cleared people there in all agencies.

Wasn’t a threat of spreading it all over the internet that time. Could end very badly with family details and all sorts in there.

rscott

17,523 posts

222 months

Thursday 24th September
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williamp said:
?? The perosn at the top wont be responsible for their cyber security,
Um, they are? The person at the top is responsible for the entire organisation.

.:ian:.

3,178 posts

234 months

Friday 25th September
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captain_cynic said:
Because he's been so successful thus far... I don't think they're worried at all.

This is the end result of DOGE and the gutting of talent out of the US govt in favour of Trump Loyalists. Whoda thunk that replacing people who knew what they were doing with Kash Patel's lackeys would result in a huge security breach.
The security hole was in an Oracle product, nothing to do with the FBI per-se.