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The FBI says agents arrested another suspected ShinyHunters co-conspirator in the FBIjobs.gov breach.
FBI Director Kash Patel said Friday, Oct. 9, 2026, that agents arrested another suspected member of the ShinyHunters hacking group earlier this week. CBS News and The New York Times reported the suspect is a Canadian citizen taken into custody in Pennsylvania. The FBI has not named the person or disclosed charges.
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An arrest announced by statement, with no name and no charge on the public record, is the thinnest version of a criminal case. CBS News sources say this suspect is believed to be directly involved in the FBI jobs-site hack. Until a complaint or indictment is unsealed, there is no filed accusation to test, and the RCMP's confirmation says only that a Canadian was arrested.
FBI Director Kash Patel said in a statement Friday, Oct. 9, 2026, that "earlier this week, our agents in the field arrested another suspected co-conspirator of the ShinyHunters group – the group believed to be responsible for the recent FBIjobs.gov incident, which occurred on a platform managed by a third-party vendor," Fox News reported. Patel called it "the latest arrest this FBI has made in a matter of days involving this network," CBS News reported. Nextgov/FCW reported the statement did not name the suspect, specify charges, or describe the person's alleged role. A statement is the FBI's account. It is not a charging document.
The New York Times first reported the suspect is a Canadian man arrested in Pennsylvania, Nextgov/FCW reported. CBS News reported that a U.S. official and another source placed the arrest in Pennsylvania, and that a law enforcement source said the suspect is a Canadian citizen believed to be directly involved in the hack of the FBI's website, with other suspected co-conspirators still at large. The Canadian Press reported that RCMP spokesperson Ian Lordon said the force "is aware of the arrest of a Canadian in the U.S. in connection with the ShinyHunters hack" and does not comment on investigations being conducted by other countries. Anonymous sourcing explains where and who. It is not proof of what the person did.
CBS News reported the FBI's jobs website was hacked in September and that ShinyHunters claimed it took 2 to 3 terabytes of data on bureau workers through a vulnerability in Oracle PeopleSoft. Reuters previously reported that a data sample included agents' names, home addresses, Social Security numbers, and assignments, Fox News reported. FBI Cyber Division Assistant Director Brett Leatherman said earlier this week that a contractor had failed to install a security patch and had been removed, CBS News reported. Those are the breach facts as officials and the group have described them. Fox News reported the extent of the breach has not been independently confirmed.
The arrest is one of several. Nextgov/FCW reported, citing Reuters, that suspected member Saif al-Din Khader was detained in Jordan and is cooperating with investigators. CBS News reported he uses the online moniker "Rey." Pepijn van der Stap, 24, was arrested in Amsterdam on Sept. 15, before ShinyHunters announced the FBI hack, CBS News reported. Each arrest is a separate case on its own facts. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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