CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
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Full breach record for CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS, INC. →7 incidents on filePress / market disclosure — not a breach-notification filing
A media or market posting that confirms an incident but carries no breach-notification fields, so compliance clocks aren't assessable. The summary below is extracted from the coverage — verify against the source.
Charter confirms data breach after ShinyHunters extortion threat. Charter Communications: Charter Communications, a major US telecommunications company, confirmed it suffered a data breach following an extortion threat from the ShinyHunters group. The attackers claimed to have accessed data via a vishing (voice phishing) attack on April 1, exporting millions of customer records from Salesforce. Although the attackers claimed to have stolen 40 million records containing personal information and CPNI, the company stated that no sensitive personal information had been exfiltrated. Linked ransomware group: shinyhunters.
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Apr 1, 2026
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Attack → press
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Linked disclosures
Why this link?Ransomware claims (1)
- Leak Siteshinyhuntersbd_e5efbd71c6e949a02026-05-23 · +52dCandidate
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Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.
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Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.
Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.
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- incident type + narrative only (may be machine-translated)
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- data types
- compliance clock
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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.