Charter
May 23, 2026
•[ extortion, data leak, ShinyHunters ]
In May 2026, the telecommunications company Charter Communications (the parent company behind the consumer broadband and cable brand Spectrum) was named by the ShinyHunters group in a "pay or leak" extortion campaign. The group later published the data, which exposed 4.9M unique email addresses along with names, phone numbers and physical addresses. A subset of approximately 85k records originating from an internal employee directory also included job titles. Charter confirmed the incident, but stated that no sensitive personal information or customer proprietary network information (CPNI) was exfiltrated.
Cushman & Wakefield
May 5, 2026
•[ vishing, extortion, data leak ]
In May 2026, the real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield was the target of a "pay or leak" extortion campaign by the ShinyHunters group. Following the threat, the group publicly published data they alleged had been obtained from the firm, consisting mostly of C&W email addresses along with tens of thousands of external email addresses and corporate contact records. The exposed data was primarily business information, including names, job titles, company addresses and phone numbers.
Udemy
April 24, 2026
•[ data leak, extortion, cybercrime ]
In April 2026, online training company Udemy was the victim of a pay or leak extortion attempt perpetrated by the ShinyHunters group. The data was subsequently leaked publicly and contained 1.4M unique email addresses belonging to customers and instructors. The data also included names, physical addresses, phone numbers, employer information and instructor payout methods including PayPal, cheque and bank transfer.
ADT
April 20, 2026
•[ data breach, extortion, data leak ]
In April 2026, home security firm ADT confirmed a data breach by ShinyHunters, which listed the company on its website as part of a "pay or leak" extortion attempt. The breach impacted 5.5M unique email addresses along with names, phone numbers and physical addresses. ADT also advised that "in a small percentage of cases, dates of birth and the last four digits of Social Security numbers or Tax IDs were included" and that it had contacted all affected people.
Pitney Bowes
April 20, 2026
•[ extortion, data leak, hacking collective ]
In April 2026, the hacking collective ShinyHunters claimed to have obtained data from Pitney Bowes as part of a broader extortion campaign that also named several other organisations. After negotiations allegedly failed, the group publicly released the data which included 8.2M unique email addresses, along with names, phone numbers and physical addresses. A subset of the data also included Pitney Bowes employee records with job titles.
Aman
April 20, 2026
•[ extortion, data leak, CRM breach ]
In April 2026, the ultra-luxury hotel brand Aman was named by ShinyHunters as the target of a "pay or leak" extortion campaign, with the data allegedly obtained from their Salesforce CRM. The data was subsequently leaked publicly and contained over 200k unique email addresses. Whilst not present on all records, the data also included genders, physical addresses, phone numbers, nationalities, dates of birth, spouse names and VIP status codes.
Canada Life
April 20, 2026
•[ extortion, data leak, phishing ]
In April 2026, Canada Life was the victim of a "pay or leak" extortion campaign by the ShinyHunters group. The group subsequently published the data which contained over 200k unique email addresses along with names, phone numbers, physical addresses and, in some cases, customer support tickets. In their disclosure notice, Canada Life advised that "it is a small proportion of our customers who may have been impacted". In the wake of the incident, Canada Life also published an alert cautioning customers to be wary of phishing attacks, a pattern often seen after the public release of breached data.
Abrigo
April 14, 2026
•[ extortion, data leak, fintech ]
In April 2026, the fintech software company Abrigo was targeted in a "pay or leak" extortion attempt by the ShinyHunters group. Shortly after, data allegedly taken from the company's Salesforce instance was published publicly and contained over 700k unique email addresses belonging to both Abrigo staff and external contacts. Whilst separate from Abrigo's Salesforce compromise via the Drift application connector the previous year, the data fields described in that incident are consistent with the ShinyHunters data, namely that it was "business contact information" including "institution name, employee name, email addresses, and phone numbers".
Mytheresa
April 12, 2026
•[ extortion, data leak, ShinyHunters ]
In April 2026, the luxury fashion e-commerce platform Mytheresa was listed as a victim of the ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion group. After the ransom deadline passed, the group publicly released the data which contained 84k unique email addresses. The exposed data also included names, phone numbers, physical addresses, purchases and partial credit card data including card type, last 4 digits and expiry date.
Rockstar Games
April 11, 2026
•[ data breach, third-party breach, SaaS breach ]
ShinyHunters claimed it stole nearly 80 million business records from Rockstar Games through a third-party SaaS/Snowflake-related breach; Rockstar said only a limited amount of non-material company information was accessed and that there was no impact on operations or players.
7-Eleven
April 8, 2026
•[ extortion, data leak, ShinyHunters ]
In April 2026, 7-Eleven was the victim of a "pay or leak" extortion campaign by ShinyHunters, with the data later published that month. The incident exposed 185k unique email addresses, along with names, physical addresses, dates of birth and phone numbers. A small number of records also contained additional exposed data fields. The company later advised the breach was limited to "certain 7-Eleven systems used to store franchisee documents", a statement consistent with the exposed data.
Amtrak
April 3, 2026
•[ data leak, ransomware, ShinyHunters ]
In April 2026, the hacking group ShinyHunters claimed they had breached Amtrak. The group typically compromises organisations' Salesforce instances before demanding a ransom and later, if not paid, dumping the data publicly. The exposed data contained over 2M unique email addresses along with names, physical addresses and customer support records.
Hallmark
March 31, 2026
•[ data leak, extortion, support tickets ]
In March 2026, Hallmark suffered an alleged breach and subsequent extortion after attackers gained access to data stored within Salesforce. The data was later published after the extortion deadline passed, exposing 1.7M unique email addresses across both Hallmark and the Hallmark+ streaming service, along with names, phone numbers, physical addresses and support tickets.
ZenBusiness
March 27, 2026
•[ data breach, extortion, ransomware ]
In March 2026, the hacker and extortion group "ShinyHunters" claimed to have obtained a substantial corpus of data from ZenBusiness, a business formation and compliance platform. The group claimed the data had been exfiltrated from platforms including Snowflake, Mixpanel and Salesforce, and threatened to publish it if a ransom was not paid. The following month, after claiming payment had not been made, ShinyHunters publicly released the data. The collection amounted to many terabytes across thousands of files that appeared to originate from multiple systems and business functions, including leads, support records and other CRM-related data. The data contained approximately 5M unique email addresses, often accompanied by name and phone number depending on the source file.
Addi
March 25, 2026
•[ fintech, data breach, extortion ]
In March 2026, the Colombian fintech company Addi identified unauthorised activity on its platform and advised customers that "it is possible that your personal information may have been compromised". The "pay or leak" extortion group ShinyHunters subsequently claimed responsibility and published a large trove of personal data allegedly obtained from Addi. The data included 34M unique email addresses from credit scoring requests, credit bureau records, customer identity records and email validation logs. It also contained government issued IDs (Cdula de Ciudadana), estimated income, socioeconomic levels, purchases and other credit-related data points.
Aura
March 18, 2026
•[ voice phishing, vishing, data leak ]
BleepingComputer reported Aura confirmed an incident where an unauthorized party gained access to nearly 900,000 records containing names and email addresses. Aura said the incident was caused by voice phishing targeting an employee and that the exposed data originated from a marketing tool used by a company acquired in 2021. Aura stated the event exposed information for 20,000 current and 15,000 former customers within the larger marketing dataset and that compromised customer information includes full names, email addresses, home addresses, and phone numbers, while emphasizing SSNs, account passwords, and financial information were not compromised. ShinyHunters claimed responsibility and said it stole 12GB of files and leaked them.
Telus Digital
March 12, 2026
•[ Data breach, Credential theft, Cloud security ]
Telus Digital confirmed a security incident after ShinyHunters claimed it stole nearly 1 petabyte of data in a multi-month breach. Reporting stated ShinyHunters said it gained initial access using Google Cloud Platform credentials found in data stolen in the Salesloft/Drift breach, and that Telus was not negotiating. At publication, Telus Digital had not been added to the actors leak site in the cited report, and specific data categories and affected individuals were not publicly enumerated in the DataBreaches summary.
Woflow
March 4, 2026
•[ data breach, extortion, PII ]
In March 2026, the AI-driven merchant data platform Woflow was named as a victim by the ShinyHunters data extortion group. The group subsequently published tens of thousands of files allegedly obtained from the company, comprising more than 2TB of data. The trove included hundreds of thousands of email addresses, names, phone numbers and physical addresses, with the data indicating it related to Woflow customers and, in turn, the customers of merchants using their platform.
Ameriprise
March 2, 2026
•[ extortion, data leak, ShinyHunters ]
In March 2026, the financial services firm Ameriprise Financial was named by the ShinyHunters group in a "pay or leak" extortion campaign. The group claimed possession of more than 200GB of compressed data exfiltrated from Ameriprise's Salesforce environment and internal SharePoint infrastructure, and subsequently published the data after negotiations allegedly failed. The published data contained 500k unique email addresses as well as names, phone numbers, physical addresses and employer information. In their disclosure to state attorneys general, Ameriprise reported 47,876 affected people; the larger email address population represents contacts from Ameriprise's broader operational systems, including internal staff. Ameriprise further advised that they have "implemented heightened monitoring of your account(s) to include enhanced identity verification procedures".
Mercer Advisors
February 16, 2026
•[ cybersecurity breach, ransomware, data leak ]
Wealth Management reported a class action lawsuit alleging Mercer Advisors suffered a cybersecurity breach around Feb. 16, 2026 carried out by ShinyHunters. The complaint said ShinyHunters demanded ransom within 48 hours and threatened to leak roughly 5.7 million client records; after Mercer refused to pay, the group published the stolen information. The article states the leaked data includes names, Social Security numbers, and other personal information, raising risks of identity theft, fraud, and highly targeted phishing/social engineering. The report also mentions ShinyHunters targeting other wealth firms, but the primary record is the Mercer breach and alleged publication of client data.
