Charter Communications confirms data breach after ShinyHunters vishing attack
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Summary
Charter Communications confirmed a data breach after the threat actor group ShinyHunters threatened to leak stolen data. The attackers claim they used vishing (voice phishing) to compromise an employee's Microsoft Entra account and stole millions of customer records from a Salesforce instance. However, Charter states that no sensitive personal information or Customer Proprietary Network Information (CPNI) was exfiltrated. The incident is under investigation.
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the company says no sensitive personal information or CPNI was exfiltrated
The attackers claim they used vishing to compromise an employee's Microsoft Entra account and steal millions of customer records from a Salesforce instance
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