Charter Communications confirmed a data breach after ShinyHunters threatened to leak stolen information, while 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. #CharterCommunications #ShinyHunters #MicrosoftEntra #Salesforce
Keypoints
- Charter Communications confirmed it is investigating a data breach.
- ShinyHunters claimed to have stolen 40 million records from Charter.
- The attackers said they used vishing to compromise a Microsoft Entra account.
- Stolen data was allegedly exported from Charter’s Salesforce instance.
- ShinyHunters has also targeted other companies using social engineering and SaaS access.