Spectrum Owner Charter Says Data Breach Exposed 4.9 Million Accounts
The hacker group ShinyHunters has been on a tear this year, having compromised several organizations and leaking the information of those that refused to pay up. The latest data breach involves Charter Communications, which offers consumers and businesses broadband internet services through its Spectrum brand.
The intrusion into Charter’s systems occurred back in April, with ShinyHunters claiming that it was able to nab 42 million records. The group demanded a ransom from the company, which Charter opted not to pay, and that led to a public data dump of the information.
In a statement to Bleeping Computer the company said that “no sensitive personal information (PI) or customer proprietary network information (CPNI) data was exfiltrated by the threat actor as a result of recent activity."
However, Have I Been Pwnedanalyzed the data included in the leak and shared that it exposes “4.9M unique email addresses along with names,...
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