OpenAI said on Tuesday that the FBI arrested one of its employees over a sophisticated listening device hidden in a company office. Everything public so far comes from the company's own X post, and the FBI had not responded to Reuters.
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Federal prosecutors charged OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan with planting an encrypted recording device in an executive conference room. OpenAI says it has no indication that source code, model weights or customer data were taken.
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FBI Director Kash Patel says agents arrested another ShinyHunters suspect, at least the third detained in two weeks since the FBIjobs.gov breach. The group says it is leaving Telegram as members are arrested, and it has promised not to publish the FBI staff data it stole.
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Alleged ShinyHunters member Saif al-Din Khader, detained in Jordan on Tuesday, is helping the FBI find other members, two sources told Reuters. A new ShinyHunters leak site went up two days later, suggesting other members still run the extortion.
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US authorities arrested Anibal Alexander Canelon Aguirre, alleged developer of Ploutus ATM malware, over $5.4 million stolen in 117 jackpottings. Prosecutors say jackpotting earned money for Tren de Aragua and hit ATMs in 47 states.
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Dutch police detained an alleged ShinyHunters leader on September 15, seven days before the group defaced the FBI's jobs website. The FBI says it is still chasing the rest of the group, so the vendor services and web portals it has used to get in remain the exposure to manage.
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ShinyHunters calls its FBI ultimatum a marketing campaign
ShinyHunters says it will never publish or sell the 2TB to 3TB of FBI data it claims to hold and calls its one-week ultimatum a marketing campaign. The pledge leaves standing its unverified claim that an Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day got it in.
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77 years, stacked: the 764 sentence that resets what a sextortion report is worth
Kyle Spitze drew the maximum on every count, served consecutively, in a case that reached the FBI through a Discord referral. Escalation paths now feed maximum-penalty prosecutions.
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Justice says Chinese state operators laundered intrusions through infected routers and cameras in more than 130 countries since 2018. Source geography has been unreliable for years.
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Prosecutors in Kansas say the group crossed state lines to reach ATMs it believed were architecturally softer, which makes the machine on the street the control that mattered. The FBI counts 700 such incidents in 2025.
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The FBI says it is investigating unauthorized activity affecting FBIjobs.gov. 404 Media reports the intruders came in through an Oracle PeopleSoft applicant server and then reached a government cloud holding agent data.
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The extortion crew defaced apply.fbijobs.gov on September 22 and told reporters it got remote code execution from a new Oracle PeopleSoft flaw, the same one it says it is now using against Fortune 500 targets. No technical details are public.
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FBI's Patel would limit rogue-AI scrutiny to models built with criminal intent
FBI Director Kash Patel suggested the bureau would target AI models built for crime after four companies disclosed agents that hacked other organizations. Nothing shows the models were built to hack, so the nearer fight is over lawsuits and the liability exemption the labs want.
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ShinyHunters claims an Oracle PeopleSoft exploit opened the FBI's job application portal
The group told 404 Media it reached apply.fbijobs.gov through Oracle's PeopleSoft, and the FBI says the point of breach is still undetermined. Three of the bureau's recruiting pages have been serving error screens.
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The bureau has not confirmed a breach and says it cannot yet tell whether its own systems or a third-party provider were the way in, while Reuters and 404 Media report that sample records match real personnel.
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Schneier and Cohn trace 25 years of US mass surveillance back to the government's post-9/11 response
Their Lawfare essay says the architecture built after 9/11 now runs largely on data that companies gather for their own business, and it cites FBI Director Kash Patel's testimony that the bureau buys information on Americans from brokers.
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The FBI prices a fled CEO at $150,000 against a $26.8m order
Bernhard Fritsch cut off his ankle monitor, was arrested in Mexico and released on a fortnightly check-in, then flew Lufthansa to Munich. Germany does not surrender its own nationals, so a wanted listing is what the case has left.
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Nigeria hands the FBI two sextortion defendants three years after arresting them
Adebola Festus Adekunle and Mudasiru Afeez Olawale were picked up in Nigeria in 2023 and only now face charges in Mississippi and North Carolina. The gap is what cross-border reach costs in elapsed time.
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A dozen states, no marquee targets: the water hacks show where the attack surface actually is
Minnesota's 30-plus plants and the FBI's seven states point at small municipal operators, and at a suspected Iranian campaign that no longer looks opportunistic.
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