ShinyHunters tells The Reg: We hacked the FBI to 'protect our business'

Data theft and extortion biz, that is

Woman Climbed Gate to Escape Notorious AI Hacker House After Repeated

A woman reportedly escaped AGI House in Hillsborough after a resident repeatedly pressured her for sex, as a New York Times investigation examined complaints involving AI group homes.

Doubts grow over claims OpenAI agent hacked Australian Medicare portal

Researchers are questioning whether an OpenAI agent needed to hack an Australian government health portal to access it, after a review of the website’s archived code found it explicitly directed visitors to an unauthenticated endpoint.

OpenAI agent hacked Australian government website, PM says

Experts believe it's the world's first known AI breach of a government system.

Australia says OpenAI agent hacked into government website

The OpenAI agent gained unauthorised access to public and non-public files in what could be the first known instance of an AI agent hacking a government website.

OpenAI agent hacked into Australia's national healthcare system

An OpenAI agent hacked into an Australian national healthcare database in the first known case of AI hacking a government network, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Wednesday.

Hacking group ShinyHunters claims it breached the FBI, stole agents' data

The theft of agents' personal information could present a major counterintelligence threat, where agents and their families are extorted into cooperating with a foreign government.

Google confirms Gemini models hacked three companies in May 2026

A third-party cybersecurity firm accidentally gave experimental Gemini models access to the Internet.

Google hit with $463M fine for EU location data rule breach

Google has been fined 403 million euros for breaching the EU's privacy rules by mishandling users' location data

Irish data protection watchdog fines Google €403M over GDPR breaches

Users may have been ‘unaware’ that location data was being used to ‘influence them with ads’

We got a cybersecurity expert to hack this BYD. It was too easy

To test the risks of surveillance and sabotage, Four Corners asked a hacker to show what China's top EV brand could see and do remotely.

Why Hacker News Protects Google: The Anatomy of Big Tech Fanboyism

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