“The catastrophic hack of at least thousands of FBI officials' personal data, including their addresses, phone numbers, and even their spouses, includes members of the FBI's secretive hacking team, potentially revealing who exactly is in that unit”

404 Media article · FBI hack exposes members of bureau's secret hacking unit

“There is very little public information about the FBI's hacking unit, including the operations it conducts, the tools it uses, or which agents are part of it.”

404 Media article · FBI hack exposes members of bureau's secret hacking unit

“The Remote Operations Unit, or ROU, is the FBI's hacking unit. For much of the previous decade, the ROU was focused on making and deploying tools to investigate the dark web”

404 Media article · FBI hack exposes members of bureau's secret hacking unit

“The ROU was "instrumental" in developing the network investigative technique (NIT) — the FBI's parlance for a hacking tool — the agency deployed on a dark web child abuse site the FBI ran for two weeks in order to identify site visitors.”

404 Media article · FBI hack exposes members of bureau's secret hacking unit

“The ROU has previously used classified hacking tools in ordinary criminal investigations, raising questions over whether defendants were able to scrutinize how evidence against them was collected.”

404 Media article · FBI hack exposes members of bureau's secret hacking unit