# Special Agent Applicant Portal

Type: Product

Source: Cyber Intelligence Brief — https://getcyberbrief.com/entity/special-agent-applicant-portal
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## Timeline

- **2026-09-22**: ShinyHunters claims FBI breach — The group announces on its dark-web leak site that it holds data on almost all FBI agents and applicants, releases a sample, and defaces FBIjobs.gov.
- **2026-09-22**: FBI jobs portals go offline — FBIjobs.gov and the Special Agent Applicant Portal display unavailable messages, and the FBI says it is investigating unauthorized activity claims.
- **2026-05**: FBI issues ShinyHunters advisory — The FBI publishes an advisory detailing ShinyHunters' methods and advising targets not to pay. ShinyHunters later cites this advisory as the trigger for the claimed breach.

## Recent coverage (1 stories)

### ShinyHunters Claims FBI Breach Exposes 5,000+ Agents' Data
2026-09-23 00:30:09 · Sentiment: Strongly negative · Impact: 9/10 · Sources: 4

ShinyHunters claims to have breached the FBI and stolen data on nearly all agents and applicants, with samples 404 Media and Reuters partially verified. The alleged path—Oracle PeopleSoft to an Amazon government cloud—raises urgent questions about HR attack surface and government cloud segmentation.
Full story: https://getcyberbrief.com/story/shinyhunters-fbi-agents-data-breach-cyber

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