Dutch police arrest alleged cybercriminal who bragged about hacking FBI, according to CBS News Earlier Tuesday, Dutch National Police announced that they arrested a 24-year-old Amsterdam man suspected of being a ShinyHunters hacker on Sept. 15, according to NBC News.
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Amsterdam Illustrative image, not of the event Image: Andrés Barrios / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0 ) Dutch police arrest alleged cybercriminal who bragged about hacking FBI, according to CBS News.
CBS News' Lana Zak reports, according to CBS News.
✓ See how we verified it and its 2 sources✓ How we verified this storyAttributed (not independently confirmed) CBS News' Lana Zak reports — CBS News Dutch police arrest alleged cybercriminal who bragged about hacking FBI — CBS News Earlier Tuesday, Dutch National Police announced that they arrested a 24-year-old Amsterdam man suspected of being a ShinyHunters hacker on Sept. 15 — NBC News In a video statement published to the FBI website, Cyber Division Assistant Director Brett Leatherman addressed the hackers directly and urged them to confess to law enforcement — NBC News The bureau isn’t explicitly tying the Dutch man’s arrest to the FBI hack, but it is using it to warn other ShinyHunters members — NBC News Dutch authorities and the FBI said Tuesday that Dutch law enforcement had arrested a leader of ShinyHunters, the international cybercrime group that last week claimed to have hacked an FBI website… — NBC News This story was checked against 2 independent sources. We only present as fact what reliable sources confirm; everything else is attributed.
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