Breach Record

Charter

DISCLOSED 2026-05-23 · STOLEN CREDS · 4,851,517 RECORDS EXPOSED

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...

The record

What we know

Disclosed

2026-05-23

Attack vector

Stolen Creds

Records exposed

4,851,517

Domain

charter.com

Data classes exposed

Email addressesJob titlesNamesPhone numbersPhysical addresses

Sources

Cited reporting

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