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Breach occurred 2026-05-23Verifiedcharter.com
What happened
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.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The Charter data breach occurred on May 23, 2026. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on May 28, 2026.
4,851,517 accounts were affected by the Charter data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The Charter breach exposed the following data types: Email addresses, Job titles, Names, Phone numbers, Physical addresses.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the Charter breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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