In August 2026, the food and animal safety company Neogen was targeted in a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion attempt. The group later published data it claimed to have obtained from Neogen. The data consists largely of corporate contact records and includes 436k unique email addresses drawn from mailing lists, employee records and oth…
In July 2026, 77 large healthcare data breaches (500+ individuals) were reported to the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR), a 10% month-over-month increase and the third consecutive monthly rise. At least 33,485,970 individuals were affected, up 642% from June and 154% above the 12-month average. January-July 2026 totals 67.4 million affec…
This SentinelOne weekly roundup covers three developments. The FBI arrested Edward Dubrovsky, a former CYPFER executive, on conspiracy and extortion charges. Kash Patel described him as a suspected co-conspirator of ShinyHunters, though he has not been officially named as one. The FBI says the group breached more than 140 organizations an…
In September 2026, Swiss medical device company Medela was targeted in a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion campaign. The data allegedly obtained in the breach was later published and covers about 424k unique email addresses, mostly belonging to healthcare professionals, Medela staff and sales leads. Have I Been Pwned added the dataset …
In August 2026, data centre operator CyrusOne was targeted in a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion attempt. The group later published data allegedly stolen from the company, covering about 373k unique email addresses across records for users, sales leads and CyrusOne employees. The data is mostly corporate contact information, and also …
In January 2026, the company intelligence platform Crunchbase was targeted in a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion attempt. Data allegedly stolen from the company was later published, covering about 560k unique email addresses, mostly belonging to leads and business contacts. Crunchbase subsequently confirmed that a threat actor had exf…
Federal investigators examining ShinyHunters have uncovered potential links between the extortion group and executives at two ransomware negotiation firms, according to a KrebsOnSecurity report published on October 19. An executive at an unnamed U.S. consulting firm (reportedly 1,000+ employees) allegedly helped operate the group's extort…
The FBI arrested a Canadian cybersecurity executive in Pennsylvania on October 8, 2026, in connection with its investigation into the ShinyHunters extortion group. Court records point to Edward Dubrovsky, a ransomware negotiation specialist formerly of Cypfer and now associated with CyberSteward. He faces charges of conspiracy to threaten…
U.S. federal investigators pursuing ShinyHunters, which recently stole sensitive personnel data from the FBI recruitment site fbijobs.gov, reportedly identified executives at two ransomware negotiation firms with unusually close ties to the group. One U.S. consulting firm executive is suspected of helping operate the now-defunct extortion…
The FBI has publicly called on remaining ShinyHunters members to surrender. Cyber division assistant director Brett Leatherman released a video thanking Dutch police for arresting a 24-year-old in Amsterdam. The FBI calls him "one of the alleged leaders" of the group, while Dutch police say only that he played a role. He is also suspected…
This SentinelOne weekly roundup covers law enforcement wins and two major breaches. A federal court sentenced former U.S. Army soldier Cameron John Wagenius to 70 months for attacks on technology and telecom firms, and former U.S. Air Force members Chijioke Timothy Odimegwu and Harafat Mogaji received a combined 189 months for business em…
Dutch authorities arrested a 24-year-old, reportedly Pepijn van der Stap (alias "Umbreon"), around Sept. 16, 2026 on suspicion of aiding data thefts and extortions by ShinyHunters. Van der Stap was previously convicted in 2023 for data theft and extortion. Days after the arrest, remaining ShinyHunters members escalated, breaching the FBI …
A Flare analysis argues that Scattered Spider, LAPSUS$ and ShinyHunters are distinct intrusion clusters within The Com, a decentralized, mostly English-speaking cybercriminal subculture, and not interchangeable names for one group. It describes SP1D3R HUNTERS (also called Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters, SLH) as a shared brand and coordination …