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Breach occurred 2026-06-12Verifiedjcpenny.com
What happened
In June 2026, retailer JCPenney and associated brands were targeted in a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion campaign. Data allegedly obtained from JCPenney through the exploitation of a critical zero-day vulnerability in Oracle PeopleSoft was later published publicly. The exposed records indicated they primarily related to internal HR systems and impacted current and former employees. The data included 368k corporate and personal email addresses, names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, phone numbers and home addresses.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The JCPenney data breach occurred on June 12, 2026. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on June 20, 2026.
368,418 accounts were affected by the JCPenney data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The JCPenney breach exposed the following data types: Dates of birth, Email addresses, Government issued IDs, Job titles, Names, Phone numbers, Physical addresses, Usernames.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the JCPenney breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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