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Jordan has confirmed the arrest of a suspected member of the ShinyHunters hacking group, which ​claims to have stolen data on every employee of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation.

A suspected member of the ShinyHunters hacking group, which says it stole data on every FBI employee, was detained in Jordan this week and is cooperating with the FBI, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

A reportedly reformed hacker was arrested by Dutch authorities earlier this week and accused of being one of the leaders of the infamous hacking group ShinyHunters. The FBI claims he’s been involved since last year and was likely involved in the Rockstar Games data breach that previously revealed non-public information about GTA Online’s finances.

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Federal agencies issue an updated warning targeting municipal water and wastewater systems following cyberattacks in at least seven states. Chief national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin reports on allegations of Iranian-affiliated hackers targeting critical infrastructure.

A hacker demanded a ransom of more than $5 million after breaching a private sector company in the UAE, the country’s cyber security chief has said.

Welcome to HackerNoon’s Meet the Writer Interview series, where we learn a bit more about the contributors that have written some of our favorite stories.

Welcome to HackerNoon’s Meet the Writer Interview series, where we learn a bit more about the contributors that have written some of our favorite stories.

Oleksii Oleksiyovych Lytvynenko had, by most accounts, a fairly ordinary legal career in Ukraine before he switched to writing malware. A US federal court sentenced the 44-year-old to four years in prison this week for conspiracy to commit wire fraud, the Justice Department announced, tied to his role in Conti, the ransomware operation blamed for…

A federal court in the United States sentenced Ukrainian national Oleksii Oleksiyovych Lytvynenko to four years in prison on September 11, 2026, closing out one of the longer-running international cases tied to the Conti ransomware operation. Lytvynenko, 44, pleaded guilty in June 2026 to conspiracy to commit wire fraud for his work as both an…