American Tower: a data breach
In June 2026, telecommunications tower infrastructure company American Tower was the target of a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion campaign . The group subsequently published data allegedly taken from the company containing more than 200k unique email addresses belonging to employees, contractors, customers, and leads. Exposed data also included names, addresses, and phone numbers.
The record
- Organisation
- American Tower →
- Identity
- American Toweridentified by its domain in a verified breach record
- Records affected
- 216,601 records
- Data exposed
- Email addresses, Job titles, Names, Phone numbers, Physical addresses
- Sector
- Not recorded
- Occurred
- 2026-06-12
- Disclosed
- 2026-06-26
- First recorded here
- 2026-09-09
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Sources (1)
One source so far.
- Have I Been Pwned ↗First reported
2026-06-26