Target may have suffered another damaging data leak as hackers claim 8.6GB haul
- Hacker alias Xpl0itrs claims to have stolen 8.6GB of Target source code
- Researchers suspect it’s recycled data from January’s confirmed 860GB breach
- Xpl0itrs has a history of dubious leak claims, fueling skepticism about authenticity
Hackers are claiming to have breached Target in what would be the US supermarket giant's second breach of 2026 alone.
The attackers are threatening to release gigabytes of source code into the dark web unless the company pays up, but not everyone is sold on the idea that the US merchandise giant was actually hacked this time around.
Some security researchers believe this might just be a case of a lowly criminal piggybacking on someone else’s work.
Was there really a hack?
Target was first hit in January 2026, when a threat actor posted a new thread in an underground hacking community to claim they were selling the company's data, and that this was the...
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