Alleged ShinyHunters leader arrested in the Netherlands
Dutch police arrested alleged ShinyHunters leader Pepijn van der Stap in Amsterdam; the group is blamed for 140+ breaches and $70M extortion.
Dutch National Police arrested a 24-year-old man in Amsterdam, identified by journalist Brian Krebs as Pepijn van der Stap, an alleged leader of ShinyHunters. The FBI says the group breached more than 140 organizations since 2025 and collected at least $70 million in extortion payments, often targeting third-party vendors on cloud platforms; victims include Instructure, Salesforce, Snowflake and McKesson. A Rotterdam court ordered him detained for at least 90 days, and police say evidence from his laptop includes details of two murders he allegedly ordered abroad. The arrest came about a week before ShinyHunters claimed it broke into FBI systems and stole sensitive data on nearly every FBI agent.