When Your Personal Information Gets Leaked: Lessons from the Carhartt Breach

Fig 1. Image from TechNewsWorld In August 2026, Carhartt suffered a massive data breach of what was initially thought to be 24.9 million unique email addresses, addresses, names, phone numbers and physical addresses. ShinyHunters, a hacking group who claimed responsibility for the attack, demanded a payment of roughly $3.3 million USD in return for not …