Charter Communications breach exposes 4.9 million accounts
Charter Communications confirmed a data breach, and ShinyHunters used the stolen data to blackmail the company. The attackers claimed to have leaked 40 million customer records, and it was later reported that more than 13 million had been published. The company put the damage at 4.9 million accounts, and on 2 June the number of leaked records was given as 42 million.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Charter Communications
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Data of 4.9 million accounts exposed, according to the company
- Cause / method
- Hacking by ShinyHunters and blackmail using stolen data
- Location
- United States
If your data was exposed
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Timeline
- It came to light that ShinyHunters had blackmailed Charter Communications over a data breach.
- Charter Communications confirmed the data breach, whilst the attackers claimed to have leaked 40 million customer records.
- It was reported that hackers had published more than 13 million customer records.
- Charter Communications said data from 4.9 million accounts had been exposed.
- The number of leaked records was given as 42 million.
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