Charter Communications, Inc.
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Over 42M records containing PII have been compromised. This is a final warning to reach out by 27 May 2026 before we leak along with several annoying (digital) problems that'll come your way. Make the right decision, don't be the next headline. Pay or Leak. | Updated: 23 May 2026 | Warning: FINAL WARNING PAY OR LEAK
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Beyond the gang's leak site, the claim about this organisation also appears in these records:
- Have I Been PwnedOpen source
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 published the data, which exposed 4.9M unique email addresses along with names, phone numbers and physical addresses. A subset of approximately 85k records originating from an internal employee directory also included job titles. Charter confirmed the incident, but stated that no sensitive personal information or customer proprietary network information (CPNI) was exfiltrated.
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Shinyhunters
ShinyHunters is a financially motivated data-theft and extortion group active since 2020, responsible for high-profile breaches including Ticketmaster (via Snowflake) and PowerSchool; by 2025 they launched a RaaS offering called "shinysp1d3r," and in August 2025 French authorities arrested four members.