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ADT Inc.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

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Filed

Apr 24, 2026

To disclose

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Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

8 filings

Confidence

50%
Full breach record for ADT Inc. →4 incidents on file

Threat-actor claim — not a regulatory filing

This row is a claim by the ransomware group Shinyhunters on its public extortion blog. It has not been validated by the victim or any regulator. Treat attribution and counts as the threat actor's assertion until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure corroborates them.

Group activity: Business ServicesDiscovered: 2026-04-24
View aggregator listing on ransomware.liveView merged incident timeline

Source: Ransomware.live

Post text · scraped from the leak site

Over 10M records containing PII and other internal corporate data have been compromised. Pay or Leak. This is a final warning to reach out by 27 Apr 2026 before we leak along with several annoying (digital) problems that'll come your way. Make the right decision, don't be the next headline. | Updated: 24 Apri 2026 | Warning: FINAL WARNING PAY OR LEAK

Incident timeline — mostly unverified

? — ?

Breach window unknown

Apr 24, 2026

Claim posted

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Corroborated · see linked filings

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Claim → filing

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Compliance clock

Not assessable

This filing is one of 8 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Ransomware claims (1)

Regulatory filings (6) · sorted by filing gap

Show 2 more filings ↓up to 96d gap

Filing propagation · 7 filings · 6 states

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Delaware State AGApr 24 · first
Leak SiteApr 24 · first · this page
Massachusetts State AG+94d
Texas State AG+95d
Washington State AG+95d
Oregon State AG+95d
New Hampshire State AG+96d

Pattern: first filing Apr 24 (DE), last Jul 29 (NH) — a 96-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claimThis record

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filing

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

Source ceiling

  • actor name
  • victim claim
  • ransom/leak status
  • discovery date
  • materiality
  • notification
  • affected count
  • confirmed data types
  • compliance clock

The ✕ fields stay blank until a regulatory filing or victim disclosure lands.

About this groupFirst seen 2024-04-23

shinyhunters

According to ransomware.live, ShinyHunters is a financially motivated data-theft and extortion group active since 2020, responsible for high-profile breaches including Ticketmaster (via Snowflake) and PowerSchool; by 2025 they launched a RaaS offering called "shinysp1d3r," and in August 2025 French authorities arrested four members.

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