Data on 1.6 million RingCentral accounts leaked
Information on about 1.6 million accounts was leaked from RingCentral, and the company confirmed the leak in August 2026. ShinyHunters stole the data in a social engineering attack, demanded payment and then published the data. The attacker claimed the stolen material totalled 623GB.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- RingCentral
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Information on about 1.6 million accounts
- Cause / method
- Social engineering attack by ShinyHunters
- Location
- United States
If your data was exposed
- Don’t tap links in texts, calls or emails that mention this incident and offer compensation, refunds or breach checks. Check directly on the organisation’s official website or app.
Timeline
- The leak of information on about 1.6 million RingCentral accounts, and ShinyHunters' publication of the data after demanding payment, came to light.
- ShinyHunters claimed to have stolen 623GB of data from RingCentral.
- RingCentral confirmed the data leak.
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