{"id":196470,"date":"2026-03-16T12:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T16:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/telus-digital-confirms-hack-as-shinyhunters-claims-credit-for-massive-data-theft\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T16:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T20:30:13","slug":"telus-digital-confirms-hack-as-shinyhunters-claims-credit-for-massive-data-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/telus-digital-confirms-hack-as-shinyhunters-claims-credit-for-massive-data-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"Telus Digital confirms hack as ShinyHunters claims credit for massive data theft"},"content":{"rendered":"

Telus Digital confirms hack as ShinyHunters claims credit for massive data theft<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.cybersecuritydive.com\/news\/telus-digital-cyberattack-shinyhunters\/814817\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-03-16 12:11:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.cybersecuritydive.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Using an unordered list, summarize the following article with between 4 and 8 key points. <\/p>\n

Hackers breached the Canadian process-outsourcing giant Telus Digital and may have accessed data belonging to the firm\u2019s customers, which include major telecommunications, financial services, healthcare and media businesses.
\n\u201cAll business operations \u2026 remain fully operational and there is no evidence of disruption to customer connectivity or services,\u201d Telus Digital said in a statement late last week. \u201cWe have implemented additional security measures to further safeguard our systems and environment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Telus Digital, a subsidiary of Vancouver-based Telus Corporation, did not identify the information the hackers accessed, saying its \u201cinvestigation into the nature and scope of potentially impacted data is ongoing.\u201d But the extent of the compromise could be vast \u2014 many large companies use Telus Digital\u2019s customer-support services, including call centers, AI-powered chatbots and fraud-prevention algorithms.
\nThe ShinyHunters cybercrime gang quickly took credit for the Telus Digital attack and claimed to have stolen 1 petabyte of data from the company. The hackers shared samples of the stolen data with Reuters, which reported that the trove included at least two dozen business customers\u2019 \u201cpersonally identifiable information\u201d and call-center recordings.
\nShinyHunters told BleepingComputer that it was able to hack Telus after it found the company\u2019s Google Cloud Platform credentials in the massive haul of data it stole from Salesloft in 2025. ShinyHunters also shared a sample of stolen Telus data with BleepingComputer, which confirmed that it included call-center records.
\nTelus Digital said it does not believe the hack extended to Telus Corporation\u2019s other business units, such as its broadband provider, its wireless carrier and its health-technology and precision-agriculture divisions. But Reuters said the stolen data included \u201cFBI background check information and source code spanning multiple [Telus] business divisions.\u201d
\nTelus Digital said it was working with law enforcement and \u201cleading cyber forensics experts\u201d to investigate the attack, and it promised to notify any affected customers.<\/p>\n

ShinyHunters claims another big victim
\nIf the Telus hack is the work of ShinyHunters, it would represent the latest in a string of high-profile breaches attributed to the cybercrime group, which first rose to prominence in 2020. In the past few years, ShinyHunters has hacked education-technology vendor PowerSchool, luxury-fashion powerhouse LVMH, Australian airline Qantas and British automaker Jaguar Land Rover, among other major companies.
\nIn just the past few months, the group has claimed credit for attacks on the restaurant chain Panera Bread, the hospitality firm Wynn Resorts and Dutch wireless carrier Odido, with each intrusion leading to the publication of vast quantities of data on the dark web.
\nIf ShinyHunters\u2019 claims are accurate, the Telus Digital hack also illustrates the long tail of cybercrime campaigns, with the 2025 Salesloft Drift hack providing login credentials that opened the door to Telus\u2019s networks.<\/p>\n

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