2026 FBI data breach

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The 2026 FBI data breach was a cyberattack on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's recruitment portal, FBIJobs.gov, in September 2026, in which the extortion group ShinyHunters claimed to have stolen personal data on nearly all current and former FBI employees and job applicants. The FBI designated the matter a cybersecurity incident on September 22, 2026, and later attributed the intrusion to a contractor's failure to apply a security patch to an Oracle PeopleSoft system; the contractor, reported to be employed by Accenture, was removed. Current and former officials described the breach as one of the most serious compromises of bureau data in years, citing counterintelligence risks to agents and their families. By mid-October 2026, authorities in the Netherlands, Jordan, and the United States had arrested or detained three people in connection with the investigation.

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