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FBI Arrests Another ShinyHunters Suspect Reportedly Involved in Its Jobs Portal Hack

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FBI Arrests Another ShinyHunters Suspect Reportedly Involved in Its Jobs Portal Hack

The FBI has arrested another suspected co-conspirator of ShinyHunters, FBI Director Kash Patel said on October 9 in a post on X.

ShinyHunters is the extortion group that said in September it had breached the FBI's jobs portal and stolen sensitive data on almost all FBI agents and job applicants. The FBI has not named the suspect, and no charges have been made public.

The suspect is a Canadian citizen who was arrested in Pennsylvania, according to The New York Times and CBS News. Both cited unnamed sources.

The Times reported that the arrest was made on suspicion of involvement in the theft of FBI data. A law enforcement source told CBS News that the suspect is believed to have been directly involved in the hack.

An FBI spokesperson declined to comment on the Times report, CBS News said. Patel's post does not say whether the suspect took part in the breach. It calls ShinyHunters "the group believed to be responsible for the recent FBIjobs.gov incident."

Patel also wrote that the FBI will keep working with its partners "to disrupt what’s left of the ShinyHunters group and their associates, no matter where they operate." Other suspected co-conspirators are still free, the law enforcement source told CBS News.

Reuters counts the new arrest as the third made public since news of the breach broke in late September. The FBI said in a statement Reuters reported on October 3 that it had "already worked with partners to arrest multiple subjects."



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