ShinyHunters breaches Charter Communications, exposes 4.9M accounts

TL;DR. The ShinyHunters gang breached Charter Communications via a vishing attack, leading to the exposure of 4.9 million customer accounts. - Attackers accessed an employee's Microsoft Entra account via voice phishing on April 1. - Stolen data includes names, emails, physical addresses, phone numbers, and some CPNI. - Charter refused to pay the ransom, prompting ShinyHunters to leak the data on the dark web.

• ShinyHunters breached Charter Communications via a vishing attack.
• Breech occurred on April 1, compromising an employee's Microsoft Entra account.
• Personal information from 4.9 million accounts was exposed, including names and addresses.
• Charter Communications confirmed the incident but denied sensitive data exfiltration.
• ShinyHunters leaked the data after Charter refused to pay their ransom demand.

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