ShinyHunters
Criminal internet hacker group
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📌 Topics
- Cybercrime (1)
- Data Breach (1)
- Extortion (1)
- Education (1)
🏷️ Keywords
ShinyHunters (1) · Harvard University (1) · University of Pennsylvania (1) · Data Breach (1) · Cybercrime (1) · Extortion (1) · Alumni Data (1) · Social Engineering (1)
📖 Key Information
ShinyHunters is a notorious black-hat criminal hacker and extortion group that is believed to have formed in 2019, and is said to have been involved in a massively significant amount of data breaches. The group often extorts the company they've hacked, if the company does not pay the ransom the stolen information is sold or often leaked on the dark web. They use very aggressive tactics in order to get victims to comply with their demands.
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🇺🇸 Hackers publish personal information stolen during Harvard, UPenn data breaches
The prolific cybercrime group ShinyHunters took responsibility for hacking Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania, and published the stolen data o...
🔗 Entity Intersection Graph
People and organizations frequently mentioned alongside ShinyHunters:
- 🌐 Cybercrime (1 shared articles)
- 👤 Harvard University (1 shared articles)
- 🌐 University of Pennsylvania (1 shared articles)