2026 J.B. Hunt — company acknowledges cybersecurity incident involving unauthorised access to certain information; ransomware group claims employee records
Data compromised
Not disclosed by the company. Class-action filings concern employees' personal information. Whitearmor's claim of about 140,838 employee records is unverified.
Technical writeup
The company statement was quoted by KFSM 5NEWS, which could not be opened; the quote comes from secondary reporting. The exact date of the statement is not verified, so the claim date is used. The lawsuit page was read through search excerpts.
Root cause
J.B. Hunt says it is investigating a cybersecurity incident involving unauthorised access to certain information. It says it hired a security firm, notified law enforcement and revoked the access, and that operations were not affected. The Whitearmor ransomware group has claimed the attack.