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Shiny Hunters’ bursts onto dark web scene following breaches, Microsoft data theft claims

Posted on May 8, 2020 by Dissent

Bradley Barth reports:

A malicious actor known as Shiny Hunters has emerged as a serious dark web player following a spate of high-profile breaches, and now the hacker or hackers is claiming to have stolen data from Microsoft’s private GitHub repositories and is threatening to release the code for free.

According to researchers from ZeroFOX Alpha Team, Shiny Hunters is behind the recently reported breaches of Indonesian e-commerce giant Tokopedia and Indian e-learning platform Unacademy, as well as three new breaches affecting meal kit delivery service Home Chef, online printing and photo store Chatbooks and college-oriented news site Chronicle.com.

Read more on SC Magazine.

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