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Charter Confirms Data Breach After ShinyHunters Extortion Threat
Charter Communications has confirmed that it suffered a data breach after the ShinyHunters ransomware gang posted an extortion threat. ShinyHunters claimed that it obtained access to the company's Salesforce instance by compromising an employee's Microsoft Entra account via vishing. Charter claims that no customer information was stolen. However, ShinyHunters claim to have stolen customer names, phone numbers, phone types, plan information, and some customer proprietary network information (CPNI).
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