ThreatVectr
Tag

#ShinyHunters

18 stories taggedShinyHunters.

Photoreal editorial image, full-frame 16:9, of a dimly lit hospital corporate office at night with rows of empty desks, a single monitor glowing with abstract c
Breaches

ShinyHunters Claims 1.6 Million Records Stolen from RingCentral

The extortion group published 280 gigabytes of alleged RingCentral data after the company refused to pay. Names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses are now circulating freely.

3 min read
A digital illustration of a classroom with a laptop showing a hacked login page, symbolizing a cyber attack on education
Breaches

Brinks Home Confirms Breach as ShinyHunters Threatens to Leak 4.9 Million Salesforce Records

The residential security company says its alarm systems were not affected, but the extortion group claims to hold customer contacts, employee data and millions of support chat logs.

3 min read
Extreme close-up of a glowing digital keypad with authentication symbols dissolving into fragmented light particles against a deep navy background, sharp focus
Identity & Access

ShinyHunters Are Phoning Hospital Help Desks: Health-ISAC Sounds the Alarm

A wave of voice-phishing calls is tricking healthcare staff into handing over single sign-on access, and the data theft is following fast.

3 min read
Macro photograph of a smart ring resting on a dark matte surface beside a dimly lit laptop keyboard, cool blue ambient light casting subtle shadows, sharp focus
Breaches

ShinyHunters claims Ernst & Young breach, points to supply-chain attack

The extortion crew says stolen credentials from a third-party supplier gave them access to EY's Jira, GitHub and Azure. The accounting giant has not confirmed the group's role.

3 min read
Full-frame edge-to-edge photoreal editorial shot of a darkened enterprise server room, with one rack illuminated by amber warning light, reflecting faintly on p
Breaches

DentaQuest Data Breach: Up to 23 Million People's Dental and Health Records Exposed

A three-day network intrusion at one of America's largest dental benefits administrators may have handed criminals the Social Security numbers, treatment records, and government IDs of tens of millions of people.

3 min read
Photoreal news-editorial aerial view of three illuminated server racks in a dark data center, each casting a different colored glow — amber, blue, red — on the
Threat Intelligence

Scammers Recycle ShinyHunters Breach Data to Power $2,000 Sextortion Emails

A campaign running since April uses email addresses from old ShinyHunters leaks to make fake extortion threats look personal.

4 min read
Photoreal editorial shot of a modern office at dusk, glass doors held slightly open with a keycard dangling from a lanyard on the handle, soft blue interior lig
Identity & Access

How ShinyHunters walked into Salesforce accounts without breaking anything

Microsoft says a year of data theft from Salesforce tenants leaned on trusted app connections, not a platform bug.

4 min read
Photoreal editorial image, full frame 16:9, of a dimly lit call centre workstation at night: a headset resting on a keyboard, a blurred screen showing an abstra
Breaches

Dutch Police Say Local Hackers Helped Pull Off the Odido Breach That Exposed 6.2 Million Customers

A phone call to customer service, a fake IT worker, and a phishing page: how criminals allegedly walked out with data on nearly every Odido subscriber.

4 min read
Full-frame photoreal editorial shot of a dimly lit open-plan office at night, a desk phone glowing under a single lamp, a laptop screen out of focus in the back
Threat Intelligence

Helix: the new extortion crew phoning staff to raid SharePoint files

Researchers at ReliaQuest say the group impersonates managers on the phone, tricks staff into a login trap, then hoovers up company documents from Microsoft SharePoint.

3 min read
A vast, dimly lit server room filled with towering racks of blinking blue and white lights, shot from a low angle looking down a long corridor of hardware, the
Breaches

ShinyHunters Breach Hits Medtronic: 3.8 Million Patients' Medical Records Stolen

The extortion group ShinyHunters broke into the medical device maker's systems in April 2026, walking away with names, Social Security numbers, and sensitive health details belonging to nearly four million people.

3 min read
Photoreal editorial image, full-frame 16:9, of a dimly lit hospital corporate office at night with rows of empty desks, a single monitor glowing with abstract c
Breaches

Medtronic tells customers their personal data was stolen in ShinyHunters raid

The medical device giant confirms hackers rifled through its corporate systems for nearly a week in April, exposing names, Social Security numbers and health details.

3 min read
Breaches

NAIC Says ShinyHunters Walked Out With Public Data and Stale Logs After PeopleSoft Zero-Day Hit

The regulator-of-regulators confirms an Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day was the entry point, but disputes the extortion crew's claims about what was taken.

3 min read
Threat Intelligence

ShinyHunters Doesn't Need Malware. That's the Point.

The group's latest breaches are a reminder that stolen credentials and patience beat zero-days most days of the week.

2 min read
Vulnerabilities

ShinyHunters Rode a PeopleSoft Zero-Day Into University Networks

A CVSS 9.8 RCE flaw in Oracle PeopleSoft gave UNC6240 a two-week head start before Oracle even confirmed the bug existed.

2 min read
Threat Intelligence

ShinyHunters Hit Universities Through PeopleSoft Zero-Day Before Oracle Patch

Mandiant ties a two-week extortion spree against Oracle PeopleSoft deployments to UNC6240, the cluster better known as ShinyHunters.

2 min read
© 2026 Threat Vectr