Data breach
Chartercharter.com
4 851 517 accounts exposed in a breach dated 2026-05-23.
Breached2026-05-23Added to HIBP2026-05-28 UTCUpdated by HIBP2026-05-28 UTCAccounts4 851 517Domaincharter.com
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What happened in Have I Been Pwned’s words
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.
Exposed data as HIBP classifies it
- Email addresses
- Job titles
- Names
- Phone numbers
- Physical addresses
How HIBP qualifies it
- HIBP verified that the data came from this service.
Source: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0)
Copied from HIBP 2026-11-05 03:50 UTC