Security News > 2024 > May > ShinyHunters claims Santander breach, selling data for 30M customers
A threat actor known as ShinyHunters is claiming to be selling a massive trove of Santander Bank data, including information for 30 million customers, employees, and bank account data, two weeks after the bank reported a data breach.
ShinyHunters is known for selling and leaking data from numerous companies over the years, including this week's alleged massive Ticketmaster data breach impacting 560 million people.
Fast forward two weeks, and as first spotted by Dark Web Informer, ShinyHunters is now claiming to sell the data for Santander customers in Chile, Spain, and Uruguay for $2 million, the same data the bank reported was stolen.
ShinyHunters has commonly acted as a data breach broker for other threat actors in the past, and it is not uncommon for these threat actors to create new aliases on various forums to sell stolen data.
While TicketMaster has not confirmed whether a data breach occurred, ShinyHunters has a reputation for selling valid data breaches in the past.
In 2024, after the AT&T data was leaked on a hacking forum, AT&T finally confirmed that the data was legitimate and that they had suffered a breach.