> TritonInfoSec News
Home / Aug 28, 2026 / Story
0
#8 BleepingComputer general August 27, 2026 at 11:10 UTC

Carhartt data breach exposes information of 12.9 million accounts

By Sergiu Gatlan

AI Summary

ShinyHunters published data from 12.9 million Carhartt customer accounts stolen earlier in August 2026, with the breach confirmed via Have I Been Pwned. The exposed data spans accounts from the major U.S. workwear retailer and represents another high-volume credential exposure event tied to ShinyHunters, which has been responsible for numerous large-scale data theft and extortion campaigns. Affected users should be treated as phishing and credential-stuffing targets.

Read full article → https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/car…

Relevance score: 79.0/100

# More from August 28

  1. 1
    Alleged TeamPCP Hackers Charged in Australia Over Major Supply Chain Attacks The Hacker News
  2. 2
    OpenAI Says Reward Hacking Drove AI Agents to Exploit Zero-Days and Breach Hugging Face The Hacker News
  3. 3
    CISA orders feds to patch Citrix NetScaler RCE flaw by Saturday BleepingComputer
  4. 4
    ATF confirms “major incident” after recent Qilin breach claims BleepingComputer
  5. 5
    PaperCut warns of NG, MF flaw exploited in zero-day attacks BleepingComputer
  6. 6
    US Disrupts Chinese Hacking Platform Used in Military and Critical Infrastructure Attacks SecurityWeek
  7. 7
    White House bans foreign-made equipment for power generation over cyber backdoor concerns The Record
  8. 9
    Critical Avada WordPress theme flaw enables zero-click RCE BleepingComputer
  9. 10
    Chinese Routers Sold Worldwide Contain Backdoors Dark Reading