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ShinyHunters Duped by Resecurity's Honeypot Breach

1/4/2026

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Story summary

ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for breaching Resecurity, a US cybersecurity firm, and released screenshots as evidence.
Resecurity stated the accessed environment was a controlled honeypot containing synthetic data.
Resecurity confirmed no actual data loss or client impact.
Resecurity released logs showing the attacker’s interactions with the decoy system, indicating ShinyHunters fell for the honeypot.

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Story summary

ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for breaching Resecurity, a US cybersecurity firm, and released screenshots as evidence.
Resecurity stated the accessed environment was a controlled honeypot containing synthetic data.
Resecurity confirmed no actual data loss or client impact.
Resecurity released logs showing the attacker’s interactions with the decoy system, indicating ShinyHunters fell for the honeypot.