In April 2026, home security firm ADT confirmed a data breach by ShinyHunters, which listed the company on its website as part of a "pay or leak" extortion attempt. The breach impacted 5.5M unique email addresses along with names, phone numbers and physical addresses. ADT also advised that "in a small percentage of cases, dates of birth and the last four digits of Social Security numbers or Tax IDs were included" and that it had contacted all affected people.
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Affected Accounts:
5.5 million
Breach Occurred:
April 2026
Added to HIBP:
27 Apr 2026
If you haven’t already changed the password affected by this breach, do so immediately on every account where it was used.
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