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ShinyHunters Claims It Breached FBI Systems, Leaking Staff and Job Applicant Data
The cyber extortion hacking group ShinyHunters claimed on Tuesday, September 22, that it had breached the systems of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, or FBI, and stolen a massive trove of data on both former and current personnel as well as job applicants. The FBI acknowledged it was aware of claims of an unauthorized intrusion affecting the FBIjobs.gov recruitment website and said it was investigating urgently. ShinyHunters said in an online chat with Reuters that the attack was retaliation for a public warning issued by the FBI in May 2026 that exposed the group's attack methods and urged victims not to pay ransoms. The hacking group claimed it stole data on nearly all FBI special agents along with people who had previously submitted job applications, and released a sample of records on about 5,000 personnel, including names, addresses, Social Security numbers, assigned duties, and the names of family members of some agents. A preliminary Reuters review comparing the data against credit bureau databases and leak histories recorded by dark web cyber threat intelligence firm District 4 Labs found at least 10 matching records, including data on Kash Patel, the FBI director, and sources close to the matter said the job details in the dataset matched reality in some cases.
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Fed's Bowman Works With Visa and MasterCard on AI Banking Risks
Federal Reserve Vice Chair of Supervision Michelle Bowman is working to secure the banking system against AI-related risks, partnering with Visa and MasterCard to guard against potential cyberattacks. Bowman said the largest banks can use the technology and mitigate its risks, but smaller institutions, especially community banks, need closer scrutiny. She is working with service providers to ensure they test technology shared with smaller banks so it does not carry vulnerabilities that could harm end consumers. Separately, Richmond Fed President Tom Barkin said the supply shocks from tariffs and higher oil prices, layered on top of inflation that has stayed above the Fed's 2% target for more than five years, are not proving short-lived, which is why the Fed opted to hike rates last week. Barkin pointed to the possibility of more tariffs, the protracted conflict in the Middle East and the continuing AI buildout pressuring supply chains, and while he did not say how many more rate hikes might come, he left the door open to them.
Cyera Raises $400 Million Goldman Sachs Extension to Series G
Cyera announced a $400 million extension from Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives to its Series G round, which was led by Evolution Equity, to accelerate its mission of building a unified platform that governs access for every human, machine, and AI agent across the enterprise. The new investment will continue to support new capabilities across Cyera's AI Security product roadmap, fuel deeper expansion in the federal market, and drive continued international growth across EMEA and APAC. Cyera has secured the data layer since day one and this year extended that control to agents acting on it, with Agent Guardian and Cyera Endpoint giving enterprises visibility and accountability across AI agents, tracking tool calls, database queries, and actions from the cloud to endpoint devices where local agents such as Claude Code and Cursor increasingly perform sensitive work. The acquisition of Oasis Security brings that visibility together with non-human identity management in a single system, connecting where sensitive data lives with who or what can actually reach it. Cyera, valued at over $12 billion, is backed by investors including Accel, Blackstone, Cyberstarts, Georgian, Lightspeed, and Sequoia, and its customers include Paramount, Chipotle, and Valvoline.
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