Charter Communications

Disclosed May 26, 20264,851,517 accountsUnverified

Charter confirms breach as ShinyHunters claims 40 million customer records

Charter Communications confirmed a data breach after ShinyHunters claimed to have exported 40 million customer records from Salesforce using a voice phished Microsoft Entra account. Charter said no sensitive personal information or CPNI was exfiltrated.

What is known

People affected	4,851,517 (accounts in the leaked data, per Have I Been Pwned)
Disclosed	May 26, 2026
Happened	May 23, 2026
Attack	Phishing
Data exposed	EmailsEmploymentNamesPhone numbersAddressesMessages
Sector	Telecom · US
Status	Unverified: not yet confirmed by an official notice, a filing or the organization
Check your email	Have I Been Pwned

Sources

Aggregatorhaveibeenpwned.com

Have I Been Pwned: Charter

Newsbleepingcomputer.com

Charter confirms data breach after ShinyHunters extortion threat

Notices filed

TotalMay 26

ResearchCount not stated

Accounts in the dataMay 28

Have I Been Pwned4,851,517 people

Other breaches at Charter Communications

Breach, details not statedBreach notice filed with the California AG, details not stated.TechUSSep 1, 2023 Breach, details not statedBreach notice filed with the California AG, details not stated.TechUSFeb 10, 2023

History of this record

source_type2026-09-25

aggregator to pressby seedSource

source_url2026-09-25

https://haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/Charter to https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/charter-confirms-data-breach-after-shinyhunters-extortion-threat/by seedSource

country2026-09-25

empty to USby seedSource

sector2026-09-25

tech to telecomby seedSource

attack2026-09-25

insider to phishingby seedSource

data_types2026-09-25

["emails","employment","names","phone","addresses"] to ["emails","employment","names","phone","addresses","messages"]by seedSource

disclosed2026-09-25

2026-05-28 to 2026-05-26by seedSource

summary2026-09-25

In May 2026, the telecommunications company Charter Communications (the parent company behind the consumer broadband and cable brand Spectrum) was named by the ShinyHunters group in a "pay or leak" extortion campaign . The group later publi to Charter Communications confirmed a data breach after ShinyHunters claimed to have exported 40 million customer records from Salesforce using a voice phished Microsoft Entra account. Charter said no sensitive personal information or CPNI wasby seedSource

title2026-09-25

empty to Charter confirms breach as ShinyHunters claims 40 million customer recordsby seedSource

Added2026-09-25

First recordedby backfillSource

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

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