Carnival Offers 2 Years of Credit Monitoring After Breach Hit Nearly 6 Million Travelers
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Updated · Fox News · May 30
Carnival Offers 2 Years of Credit Monitoring After Breach Hit Nearly 6 Million Travelers
10 articles · Updated · Fox News · May 30
Carnival is offering affected U.S. customers two years of free TransUnion credit monitoring after a breach exposed data tied to 5,995,277 people.
An April social-engineering attack tricked a single employee account, giving an unauthorized actor access to part of the cruise operator’s IT system before Carnival says it blocked the activity and called in outside experts.
Names, email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, and driver’s license and passport numbers were among the compromised data Carnival has identified so far, though it says the review of exactly what was taken is still ongoing.
Notification letters have been sent, and Carnival said delays reflected the time needed to determine whose information was affected; some customers complained online that the warning came too late and sought compensation beyond monitoring.
Carnival, which carried about 13.5 million guests in 2025 across 90 ships and multiple brands, has not confirmed reports that ShinyHunters was behind the attack or that stolen data was posted online.
Why does Carnival's security repeatedly fail, making this the company's third major data breach in recent years?
How did one employee's deception lead to the theft of six million customer records by the infamous ShinyHunters group?
Is two years of credit monitoring enough when stolen passport and Social Security numbers pose a lifetime threat?