2026 pitney-bowes — Have I Been Pwned verified incident: Pitney Bowes
Data compromised
Email addresses, Job titles, Names, Phone numbers, Physical addresses
Technical writeup
In April 2026, the hacking collective ShinyHunters claimed to have obtained data from Pitney Bowes as part of a broader extortion campaign that also named several other organisations. After negotiations allegedly failed, the group publicly released the data which included 8.2M unique email addresses, along with names, phone numbers and physical addresses. A subset of the data also included Pitney Bowes employee records with job titles. BreachHistory indexes the Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) corpus for third-party breach disclosure and victim notification context; treat record counts and fields as disclosed in that source at time of indexing.
Root cause
Variations by incident; see HIBP narrative and linked disclosures where present.