Charter Communications, Inc.
Attack Intelligence
Charter Communications, Inc. was compromised in a ransomware attack attributed to shinyhunters in May 2026. The organization, operating in the Telecommunication sector in United States, was added to the group's data leak site as part of an extortion campaign.
shinyhunters operates as a financially motivated ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation, exfiltrating sensitive data and threatening public disclosure to pressure victims into paying ransom demands.
Over 42M records containing PII have been compromised. This is a final warning to reach out by 27 May 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. Pay or Leak.
Intelligence correlations link this incident to 1 vulnerability(ies) including CVE-2026-35273, which may have been leveraged as initial access vectors or for lateral movement.