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Inside the FBI hack: Agents fearful after 'dangerous' data breach

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Cynthia Kaiser, who was the Deputy Director of Cyber at the FBI and now leads the Research Centre at Halcyon says ShinyHunters appear to already have lost control of some.

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Headline as published: Inside the FBI hack: Agents fearful and angry after 'dangerous' data breach

Two of the three things this headline claims are not in the report.

  • “Inside” is named in the headline. We could not find it in the report.
  • The headline puts “dangerous” in quotation marks. Nobody says those words anywhere in the report.

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A summary of BBC News (Technology)’s report. The score is for the full 992-word report.

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