ADT: a data breach
In April 2026, home security firm ADT confirmed a data breach by ShinyHunters , which listed the company on its website as part of a "pay or leak" extortion attempt. The breach impacted 5.5M unique email addresses along with names, phone numbers and physical addresses. ADT also advised that "in a small percentage of cases, dates of birth and the last four digits of Social Security numbers or Tax IDs were included" and that it had contacted all affected people.
The record
- Organisation
- ADT →
- Identity
- ADTidentified by its domain in a verified breach record
- Records affected
- 5,488,888 records
- Data exposed
- Dates of birth, Email addresses, Names, Partial government issued IDs, Phone numbers, Physical addresses
- Sector
- Not recorded
- Occurred
- 2026-04-20
- Disclosed
- 2026-04-27
- First recorded here
- 2026-09-09
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Sources (1)
One source so far.
- Have I Been Pwned ↗First reported
2026-04-27