r/netsec
· u/Visual_Course6624
· May 10, 2026
ShinyHunters / AT&T ransom payment traced on-chain — paper draft, seeking arXiv cs.CR endorsement
Across all major ShinyHunters campaigns (AT&T/Snowflake, Salesforce, Canvas/Instructure), only one event has both a publicly stated payment amount and a known approximate settlement date: the May 2024 AT&T payment of ~5.…
r/cybersecurity
· u/wslyvh
· 1w ago
ShinyHunters leaks Charter Communications data: 4.9M customer records exposed via a social-engineering attack on an employee's Microsoft account
Key Takeaways In May 2026, 4.9 million records from Charter Communications were exposed, including email addresses, names, phone numbers, physical addresses, and some job titles. This incident is part of a pattern of lar…