FBI tells ShinyHunters members to turn themselves in after recent arrest
Dutch police arrested an alleged ShinyHunters leader; FBI warned remaining members to surrender after 140+ breaches and $70 million extorted.
Dutch police arrested a 24-year-old Amsterdam man on September 15, identified by the FBI as one of ShinyHunters' alleged leaders, and the Rotterdam District Court ordered at least 90 more days of pre-trial detention. The FBI says ShinyHunters and co-conspirators breached more than 140 organizations since last year, collecting at least $70 million in extortion payments by targeting corporate SSO accounts, third-party vendors, and SaaS platforms like Salesforce and Snowflake. The group recently claimed the FBI breach via an Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day, stealing 2-3 TB including roughly 5,000 personnel records that exposed the FBI's Remote Operations Unit. The suspect's laptop also contained details of two murders planned abroad, which police say he may have ordered.