{"id":222992,"date":"2026-05-31T03:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T07:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/shinyhunters-leaks-charter-communications-data-potentially-impacting-5-million-customers\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T03:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T07:55:12","slug":"shinyhunters-leaks-charter-communications-data-potentially-impacting-5-million-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/shinyhunters-leaks-charter-communications-data-potentially-impacting-5-million-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"ShinyHunters Leaks Charter Communications Data, Potentially Impacting 5 Million Customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/securityaffairs.com\/192907\/uncategorized\/shinyhunters-leaks-charter-communications-data-potentially-impacting-5-million-customers.html\">ShinyHunters Leaks Charter Communications Data, Potentially Impacting 5 Million Customers<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/securityaffairs.com\/192907\/uncategorized\/shinyhunters-leaks-charter-communications-data-potentially-impacting-5-million-customers.html\">https:\/\/securityaffairs.com\/192907\/uncategorized\/shinyhunters-leaks-charter-communications-data-potentially-impacting-5-million-customers.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-30 12:33:14<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"securityaffairs.com\">securityaffairs.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary:<\/strong> Cybersecurity group ShinyHunters has disclosed data allegedly stolen from Charter Communications, affecting approximately 4.9 million customers after failing to extort a ransom. Charter Communications, a major telecommunications provider offering internet, cable, mobile, and phone services across the U.S., reportedly refused to pay the demanded ransom. Consequently, the hacker group published details comprising over 42 million customer records, which include personal information such as names, phone numbers, and addresses, as well as data from an internal employee directory. Although the leaked records pose a significant risk, Charter has declared that no sensitive personal information or customer proprietary network information (CPNI) was actually stolen. The company has activated its security measures and is collaborating with authorities while monitoring the issue, primarily linked to its sales-related systems for managing business customer relationships.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Points:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ShinyHunters leaked data from Charter Communications after the company refused to pay a ransom.<\/li>\n<li>The leaked data purportedly involves 42 million records, affecting approximately 4.9 million customers.<\/li>\n<li>The disclosed information includes personal details like names, phone numbers, and addresses, with an additional subset revealing job titles from an internal employee directory.<\/li>\n<li>Despite the breach, Charter asserted that no sensitive or CPNI information was compromised.<\/li>\n<li>Charter has activated its security protocols and is cooperating with authorities to tackle the issue.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ShinyHunters Leaks Charter Communications Data, Potentially Impacting 5 Million Customers https:\/\/securityaffairs.com\/192907\/uncategorized\/shinyhunters-leaks-charter-communications-data-potentially-impacting-5-million-customers.html Publish Date: 2026-05-30 12:33:14&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222993,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/securityaffairs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/data-breach.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[30,24,35],"class_list":["post-222992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-breach","tag-cybersecurity","tag-hacker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222992"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222994,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222992\/revisions\/222994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}