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CarGurus

Disclosed Feb 22, 20267 months ago12,461,887 accountsUnverified

ShinyHunters leaks 12.4 million CarGurus account records

ShinyHunters published a 6.1 GB archive it said came from CarGurus, and Have I Been Pwned loaded 12.4 million records including contact details and finance pre-qualification data. CarGurus did not publish a statement.

What is known

People affected12,461,887 (accounts in the leaked data, per Have I Been Pwned)
DisclosedFeb 22, 2026
HappenedFeb 14, 2026
AttackExtortion
Data exposedEmails, IP addresses, Names, Phone numbers, Addresses, Financial
SectorTech · US
StatusUnverified: not yet confirmed by an official notice, a filing or the organization
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Sources

Source
Have I Been Pwned: CarGurushaveibeenpwned.com · Aggregator
CarGurus data breach affects 12.5 million accountstechcrunch.com · News
CarGurus data breach exposes information of 12.4 million accountsbleepingcomputer.com · News

Notices filed

WhereFiledPeople
Have I Been Pwnedaccounts in the dataFeb 2212,461,887
ResearchtotalFeb 22
History of this record
  • 2026-09-25 · source_type: aggregator to press · seed source
  • 2026-09-25 · source_url: https://haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/CarGurus to https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cargurus-data-breach-exposes-information-of-124-million-accounts/ · seed source
  • 2026-09-25 · country: empty to US · seed source
  • 2026-09-25 · data_types: ["emails","ip-addresses","names","phone","addresses"] to ["emails","ip-addresses","names","phone","addresses","financial"] · seed source
  • 2026-09-25 · summary: In February 2026, the automotive marketplace CarGurus was the target of a data breach attributed to the threat actor ShinyHunters . Following an attempted extortion, the data was published publicly and contained more than 12M email addresse to ShinyHunters published a 6.1 GB archive it said came from CarGurus, and Have I Been Pwned loaded 12.4 million records including contact details and finance pre-qualification data. CarGurus did not publish a statement. · seed source
  • 2026-09-25 · title: empty to ShinyHunters leaks 12.4 million CarGurus account records · seed source
  • 2026-09-25 · added · backfill source

First seen 2026-09-25 (Have I Been Pwned). Record counts are as reported. Not legal advice.

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