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.
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.
7-Eleven has confirmed that an unauthorized party reached systems holding its franchisee documents on April 8, 2026. The extortion group ShinyHunters claims it stole more than 600,000 Salesforce records of personal and corporate information, posted samples on its Tor leak site, and demanded payment by April 21 or it would publish everything. 7-Eleven says the leaked files came from franchise applications and that it is notifying affected individuals. The breach fits the pattern ShinyHunters has run against Google, Cisco, Vimeo, Rockstar Games, Instructure, Zara, and the European Commission since mid-2025 - all delivered through compromised Salesforce instances rather than direct break-ins.
Have I Been Pwned has added Colombian buy-now-pay-later fintech Addi to its breach corpus with 34,532,941 unique email addresses. Addi acknowledged unauthorized activity on its platform back in March 2026 and warned customers that personal data might have been compromised. ShinyHunters then claimed responsibility and published the dataset, which goes well beyond emails: credit-scoring requests, credit bureau records, customer identity files, email-validation logs, Cedula de Ciudadania national ID numbers, estimated income, socioeconomic level, and purchase history. Addi is a Bogota-based BNPL lender with $1B+ in funding and is one of the larger Latin American fintech breaches publicly documented this year.
Troy Hunt's Have I Been Pwned added two new ShinyHunters victims this week. Abrigo - a Texas-based fintech that builds risk, compliance, and lending software for thousands of US banks and credit unions - had 711,099 unique email addresses and 1.75 million records lifted from its Salesforce environment in April after refusing to pay the ransom. The Canada Life Assurance Company, one of Canada's largest insurers, had 237,810 accounts confirmed in HIBP from a separate ShinyHunters Salesforce breach. Both fit the pattern of the months-long ShinyHunters mass-extortion campaign that already hit Zara, Woflow, and Instructure, with stolen data sitting in third-party Salesforce tenants rather than the victims' core systems.
Update on the Canvas breach covered May 4, 8, and 12: Instructure paid an undisclosed ransom to ShinyHunters on Tuesday to stop publication of the 3.65 TB dataset covering 8,809 educational organizations and 275 million students and staff. Hours later, the US House Education Committee launched a formal inquiry requesting testimony from Instructure leadership about the breach and the decision to pay. This is the largest known education-sector ransom payment. The FBI's 'don't pay' guidance now collides with Congressional scrutiny of the payment decision.
Instructure confirms that ShinyHunters exploited multiple cross-site scripting flaws in Canvas to deface school login portals on May 7, demanding the company and individual schools negotiate ransom by May 12. The flaws are in user-generated-content features of the free Free-for-Teacher Canvas environment and let the attacker grab authenticated admin sessions. This was a second hit following the original breach disclosed a week earlier that ShinyHunters claims netted 3.6 terabytes covering 8,809 educational organizations and 275 million student, teacher, and staff records. Instructure has taken Free-for-Teacher offline and applied additional safeguards; main Canvas has been restored since May 9.
Zara is the latest big brand caught in the ShinyHunters extortion campaign tied to the March breach of analytics provider Anodot. The attackers - who got into Anodot in March and used that foothold to raid Snowflake-hosted data for at least a dozen downstream customers - have now published roughly one terabyte of files they say came from Zara's customer support system. Have I Been Pwned loaded 197,376 unique email addresses from the dump, along with product SKUs, order IDs, and the market each support ticket originated in. Zara's parent Inditex says no passwords or payment data were exposed.
Woflow, an AI-driven platform that maintains menu and product data for restaurants and merchants on delivery apps, is the next named victim of ShinyHunters' extortion campaign. The group has published over 2 terabytes of files it says came from Woflow, including names, phone numbers, physical addresses, and email addresses. Have I Been Pwned loaded 447,593 unique email addresses from the dump. The exposed data appears to cover both Woflow's direct customers and the end customers of those merchants - so the breach radius is wider than Woflow's own user list, reaching the customers of every business that relies on Woflow's data.
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