Cyber-Crime
Carnival confirms ShinyHunters cruised off with 6M customer records after April breach
Travel and leisure giant was just one of many victims of the cybercrooks' crime spree this year
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.However, a company filing with the Maine attorney general's office puts the number of affected individuals at just under six million, down from the 8.7 million records previously listed by Have I Been Pwned.
Carnival previously acknowledged the phishing attack at the time, but it did not say whether any data had been accessed or stolen.
