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2 June 2026

Carnival confirms ShinyHunters cruised off with 6M customer records after April breach

Carnival confirms ShinyHunters cruised off with 6M customer records after April breach

Carnival Corporation - the world's largest cruise operator - has confirmed a digital heist, a month after hacking crew ShinyHunters claimed to have stolen millions of customers' records.


The breach, Carnival confirmed, stemmed from an April 14 social engineering attack on an employee, though the company declined to comment on the scale or name ShinyHunters. A company filing with the Maine attorney general's office puts the number of affected individuals at just under 6 million, down from the 8.7 million records previously listed by Have I Been Pwned.

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