The group threatens publication unless the FBI retracts a May advisory describing it as a criminal group focused on extortion.
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ShinyHunters claims to have stolen private data on roughly 38,000 FBI employees and applicants.
ShinyHunters supplies the claim and estimated scope; the listed reporting does not establish independent verification of the full dataset.
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ShinyHunters threatens to publish the databases within a week unless the FBI retracts its May advisory.
The story explicitly attributes this conditional commitment to ShinyHunters. Listed sources support a retraction demand, although CyberScoop questions whether the leak-site post directly threatened publication.