ShinyHunters Leaks 185,000 7-Eleven Emails in April Extortion Breach

3 articles · Updated · Fox News · May 28

Have I Been Pwned added a 7-Eleven breach affecting about 185,000 unique email addresses, with leaked records including names, dates of birth, phone numbers and physical addresses.
7-Eleven said an unauthorized third party accessed an internal server used to store franchisee documents, indicating the breach hit franchise-related records rather than routine customer checkout data.
Some filings said certain records also contained Social Security and driver's license numbers, raising identity-theft risk beyond phishing and impersonation scams.
The data was published in April after a ShinyHunters-linked "pay or leak" extortion campaign, and 7-Eleven said it notified affected individuals and offered up to 24 months of identity-theft protection.

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