Dutch Police Arrest ‘Reformed’ Hacker in Shiny Hunters Investigation

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What happened

A KrebsOnSecurity feed covering major cybercrime investigations, arrests, data extortion, supply-chain attacks, identity-document theft, privacy litigation, ad-fraud-enabled streaming devices, and large Microsoft vulnerability patch releases. Reported activity includes ShinyHunters and TeamPCP operations, Snowflake-related extortion, theft of telecommunications metadata and driver-license scans, and actively exploited Microsoft vulnerabilities. No specific CVE identifiers are provided in the feed summaries.

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