ShinyHunters adds Charter to trophy shelf after 4.9M customer records leak
Telco giant says no sensitive data was taken, though names, addresses, phones, and emails are now out there
ShinyHunters claims it has dumped the personal details of millions of Charter Communications customers after the US telecom giant apparently declined to play along with the gang's latest extortion demands.
According to Have I Been Pwned, the breach exposed the personal details of 4.9 million customers, including names, email addresses, phone numbers, and physical addresses. It says a smaller subset of roughly 85,000 records originating from an internal staff directory also contained job titles.
Charter appeared on the ShinyHunters leak site earlier this month, with the extortion crew claiming to have stolen more than 42 million records belonging to consumer and business customers.
The listing, seen by The Register, warned: "Over 42M records containing PII have been compromised. This is a final warning to reach out by 27 May 2026 before...
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