State Department — Cyber Attacks, Breaches & Threat Activity

Threat entity extracted from intelligence sources

Frequency
4
occurrences
First Seen
December 4, 2025
Last Seen
May 8, 2026

State Department is a organization tracked across 3 threat clusters and 4 intelligence report mentions on ThreatCluster. First observed December 4, 2025; most recent activity May 8, 2026.

Related Threat Clusters

  • Virginia Brothers Convicted for Wiping 96 Federal Databases

    Sohaib Akhter, 34, was convicted of conspiracy to commit computer fraud and database destruction after he and his twin brother, Muneeb, deleted approximately 96 databases containing sensitive U.S. government…

    9 articles · Updated May 8, 2026
  • Opexus Hires Twins with Criminal Past, Fails Background Check

    Opexus hired twins Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter, who had a criminal history including wire fraud and hacking the State Department. The company conducted background checks but missed key red flags from the brothers' past…

    1 article · Updated December 15, 2025
  • Virginia Brothers Charged with Stealing and Wiping Government Databases

    Twin brothers Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter were arrested for allegedly stealing and destroying sensitive government data after being fired from their contractor positions. The brothers are accused of compromising databases…

    4 articles · Updated December 4, 2025

Recent Intelligence Reports

  • Disgraced US gov software contractor found guilty of database destruction — Theregister · May 8, 2026
  • Opexus claims background checks missed red flags on twins accused of insider breach — Cyberscoop · December 15, 2025
  • Twin brothers charged with deleting 96 US govt databases — Theregister · December 4, 2025
  • Twins who hacked State Dept hired to work for gov again, now charged with deleting databases — Theregister · December 4, 2025

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