The ShinyHunters extortion group has now published the Charter Communications data it stole, after the telecom giant apparently refused to pay. Earlier reporting put the breach at 4.9 million HIBP-confirmed unique accounts; ShinyHunters' leak is described as potentially impacting up to 5 million customers. Charter is one of the largest US telecoms, providing internet, cable, mobile, and phone services to residential and business customers under the Spectrum brand. The data was originally exfiltrated via voice-phishing of a Microsoft Entra account on April 1 and a Salesforce export. With the data now public rather than merely claimed, the phishing and identity-theft risk to affected customers rises sharply.
HIBP has confirmed 4.9 million unique accounts (4,851,517 email addresses) were affected by the Charter Communications breach disclosed earlier this week. The ShinyHunters extortion gang initially claimed 42 million records exfiltrated from Charter's Salesforce instance via voice-phishing of a Microsoft Entra account on April 1; the unique-account count is lower because individuals appeared on multiple records (customer + business + plan-info). Charter publicly denies that CPNI (Customer Proprietary Network Information) or sensitive personal data was taken. The HIBP entry refines the scope to a defender-actionable figure and lets customers and IR teams check exposure across their workforce.
Carnival Corporation, the world's largest cruise-line operator with 90+ ships across Carnival, Princess, Holland America, Costa, P&O, Cunard, AIDA, and Seabourn, has confirmed a breach affecting 5,995,277 customers. The intrusion began April 10 when an employee was social-engineered into giving up account credentials; Carnival's IT team detected the unauthorized activity on April 14. ShinyHunters claimed responsibility in April and listed the company on its data leak site. Carnival served around 13.5 million guests in 2024 across its fleet. The company is now notifying affected individuals. The pattern aligns with the broader ShinyHunters SaaS-extortion playbook documented across Charter, Instructure, and others over the past quarter.
TechCrunch has flagged a public AWS S3 bucket operated by a UAE-registered third-party site, UK Visa Portal (Active Leadgen LLC), that exposed at least 100,000 passport scans and selfies belonging to people who paid extra to apply for UK electronic travel authorizations. The site is not the official GOV.UK service; users could complete the same application directly on GOV.UK in minutes for free. The third party reportedly responded with legal threats instead of remediation. The dataset is now in the wild and creates substantial identity-document compromise risk - passport scans plus selfies enable KYC bypass against banks, exchanges, and government services.
Have I Been Pwned has added US insurance provider Kemper to its breach corpus with 269,299 unique email addresses. Kemper offers auto, home, life, and health insurance across the United States. As is typical for HIBP additions, the underlying breach source and disclosure details are not published alongside the entry, but the listing lets individuals and organizations check whether their accounts appear in the leaked dataset. Affected customers should anticipate insurance-themed phishing - claim-status updates, policy-renewal prompts, or premium-refund lures. The addition continues a steady run of US financial-services and insurance breaches surfacing in HIBP through late May.
US broadband giant Charter Communications has confirmed a data breach after the ShinyHunters extortion group listed it on its Tor leak site claiming 40 million stolen consumer and business records. ShinyHunters told BleepingComputer the intrusion began April 1 via a vishing attack that compromised an employee's Microsoft Entra account, used to export records from the company's Salesforce instance. Stolen data reportedly includes names, email addresses, addresses, phone numbers, plan information, and some CPNI (Customer Proprietary Network Information). Charter publicly denies CPNI was taken. ShinyHunters' SaaS-extortion playbook continues: Salesforce + Entra/Okta SSO + BPO vishing is the same model used against Instructure and others.
Lithuanian authorities are investigating the theft of around 600,000 records from the country's Centre of Registers, which holds state registry data. The breach was detected in early April and disclosed publicly only after weeks of internal investigation. Centre of Registers chief Adrijus Jusas resigned Monday, citing years of underinvestment that would need ~€60 million to address. The leader of Lithuania's conservative opposition alleges 'hallmarks of a Russian intelligence operation' and warns the data (including residential addresses linked to sensitive government personnel) could enable surveillance, phishing, and sabotage planning. Lithuanian prosecutors have neither confirmed nor denied Russian involvement.
The Oncology Institute, a US outpatient cancer-care network, has filed an SEC 8-K confirming that patient information was exposed in a third-party vendor breach. Kroll, acting as the vendor's third-party administrator, notified the company on May 20 that unauthorized access had been detected. The vendor is not officially named, but multiple reports point to Cognizant-owned TriZetto Provider Solutions, which previously disclosed a breach in March 2026 affecting more than 3.4 million patients via its provider-portal infrastructure. The Oncology Institute first flagged the incident in a November 2025 8-K. The vendor has set up a patient portal for inquiries.
Have I Been Pwned has added Ameriprise Financial to its breach corpus with 502,597 unique email addresses. The financial-services giant manages over $1 trillion in assets across wealth management, advisory, and asset-management services. Underlying breach details and the original disclosure source have not been published alongside the HIBP entry, but the addition lets organizations and individuals check whether their accounts appear in the leaked dataset. Customers should expect targeted phishing themed around investment-account verification or advisor-impersonation pretexts. The breach adds to a recent run of financial-services HIBP listings including Marcus & Millichap (1.8M) and Cushman & Wakefield (310K).
A threat actor going by Euphoric_Reply_5727 is selling a database advertised as 340 million OnlyFans user records on a cybercrime forum for 0.313 BTC (around $76,000). In private messages, the seller admitted to HackRead that they did not breach OnlyFans directly - the dataset was assembled by correlating old data-breach corpora with publicly visible OnlyFans profile information. Sample records include usernames, email, phone, join date, follower counts, linked social profiles, and a 'card' field claimed to be payment-card-last-4. The privacy risk is real even without a fresh breach: the correlated dataset enables targeted phishing, stalking, impersonation, and blackmail of OnlyFans users.
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