Breach date: 2026-08-13. Added to this index: 2026-08-25. Accounts affected: about 13M. Domain: carhartt.com.
What happened
In August 2026, clothing retailer Carhartt was the target of a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion campaign. The group subsequently published data allegedly obtained from the company including 12.9M unique email addresses, names, phone numbers and physical addresses. The published corpus also contained millions of synthetic records that did not relate to real individuals and were excluded from the breach.
Breach data sourced from Have I Been Pwned, used under CC BY 4.0. Additional breach metadata provided by XposedOrNot. DataExposed is an independent service and is not affiliated with or endorsed by either.
What was exposed
Email addresses: The email address you used to register or log in. It is the most common field in breaches because it doubles as your username on most sites.
Names: Your first name, surname and sometimes middle name or initials, as you gave them when you signed up. It appears in almost every breach because nearly every account asks for it.
Phone numbers: Your mobile or landline number, collected at signup for contact, delivery updates, marketing and two-factor codes.
Physical addresses: Your residential, postal, billing or delivery address, stored by retailers, utilities, banks, government services and almost any company that sends you something.
What to do now
Check whether your own address is in this dataset with the free email breach check.
Review the accounts connected to this service and turn on two-factor authentication.
Turn on two-factor authentication on your email account first, because it is the reset path for everything else.
Treat calls and messages that quote real details about you as hostile until you verify them another way.
Frequently asked questions
What data was leaked in the Carhartt breach?
The Carhartt breach exposed Email addresses, Names, Phone numbers, Physical addresses. About 13M accounts were affected.
Was I affected by the Carhartt breach?
Run the free email breach check with the address you used on that service. It will tell you whether your address appears in this dataset.
What should I do about the Carhartt breach?
Treat any message that quotes details from this breach as suspicious, turn on two-factor authentication, and consider removing your details from people-search sites if your address or phone was included.