Dutch authorities have confirmed that a 24-year-old man from Amsterdam has been arrested in connection with the ShinyHunters hacking group This article explores amsterdam arrested investigation. . According to the Politie Landelijke Opsporing en Interventies, "It is true that this month, a 24-year-old man from Amsterdam was arrested in an investigation into the hacker group ShinyHunters."
The arrested individual is scheduled to appear before the Rotterdam District Court on September 29, 2026. Although the police did not provide additional details, independent security journalist Brian Krebs and DataBreaches.Net identified the arrested man as Pepijn van der Stap (aka Umbreon), who was previously apprehended in 2023 for his involvement in a series of data thefts and extortions. Everyone is reading about it.
We don't care what the public says and we're not affected by it or clouding our judgment with external opinions and thoughts." "We understand why some misinterpreted this as extortion and are convinced we would publish this data or misuse it, such as selling it to third parties, due to our history in past operations that never involved a prominent government entity." The spokesperson said.
Although the group claimed to exploit a new zero-day flaw in Oracle PeopleSoft to gain unauthorized access and siphon data, it is now assessed that ShinyHunters employed a URL-encoding trick to bypass web application firewall (WAF) rules designed to mitigate this flaw.
