Was Carhartt, Inc. hit by ransomware?

Carhartt, Inc. was listed by the shinyhunters ransomware operation (United States), and stolen data was published on the group's leak site. Darkfield tracks this disclosure with the original leak post, screenshot and group context.

Who is the shinyhunters ransomware group?

shinyhunters is a ransomware operator tracked by Darkfield. See the full operator dossier for its known victims, sectors targeted, IOCs and leak-site infrastructure.

What data was leaked in the Carhartt, Inc. breach?

shinyhunters published data attributed to Carhartt, Inc.. Darkfield captured the leak post and a screenshot of the listing.

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Carhartt, Inc.

Claimed by Shinyhunters · listed 4 days ago

Age

since listed · data leaked

Status timeline

ListedAug 14, 2026
Data leakeddate unknown

At a glance

Group: Shinyhunters
Status: Data leaked
Country: United States
Sector: Retail & E-Commerce
Listed on leak site: Aug 14, 2026

About the victim

AI dossier — public-source company profile

Carhartt, Inc. is a US-based retail and e-commerce company operating the carhartt.com platform.

Industry: Retail & E-Commerce

Attack summary

Severity: critical — Confirmed exfiltration of customer PII at large scale (millions of records) plus employee data and sensitive internal information. The 50GB+ data size and breadth of sensitive information categories (PII, royalty metadata, employee records) indicates significant regulated/sensitive data exposure affecting a major retailer.

ShinyHunters claims to have exfiltrated millions of customer records and employee data totaling 50GB+ (compressed). The group alleges that sensitive information including customer PII, royalty metadata, and internal corporate data was compromised. Carhartt declined to negotiate after the group demanded $3.3 million.

critical

Data the group says was taken

AI dossier — extracted from the leak post

customer records (millions)
customer PII
employee data
customer metadata (royalty information)
internal corporate data

What the group claims

Our demand for this Company was $3.3 million. The Company reached out. However, The Company did not try to negotiate. If The Company attempted to negotiate with us The Company would've ended up saving a good chunk of money. Instead they decided to do (see blow); this is also because The Company hired a very unskilled and incompetent negotiator. If The Company hired competency to negotiate for them, this post would've never been published. [21:24:22] carhartt: After careful review and internal discussions with leadership, we have decided not to move forward with negotiations or further discussions. We appreciate your patience throughout this process. There is millions of customers of data involved here. As we always say, these companies don't care. Millions of records of customer data and vast amount of sensitive information and PII containing employee, customer, customer metadata (royalty info), and other internal corporate data was compromised. The Company failed to reach an agreement with us despite our incredible patience, all the chances and offers we made. They don't care. | Size: 50GB+ (compressed) | Updated: 13 August 2026 | SHA256: 6b37f770382ce82bfa4677466cc51d9269e5a70436eecf101fae6fa9d5d8e8ac

Sources

Victim sitecarhartt.com

Source

Indexed 4 days ago

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Disclosure context

About shinyhunters

Based on the limited publicly available information, shinyhunters appears to be a recently emerged ransomware group first observed in October 2025, primarily motivated by financial gain through extortion activities targeting organizations across multiple sectors. The group's origin and potential affiliations remain unclear due to their recent emergence, and there is insufficient public documentation to determine whether they operate as a Ransomware-as-a-Service model or as an independent entity. Their attack methodology and specific technical capabilities have not been extensively documented by major threat intelligence firms, though their targeting pattern suggests a broad opportunistic approach rather than sector-specific specialization. The group has reportedly victimized approximately 77 organizations, with primary targeting focused on the United States, France, Japan, Germany, and Australia, showing particular interest in consumer services, technology, financial services, transportation and logistics, and education sectors. Given the group's very recent emergence in late 2025, there are no widely reported major campaigns or high-profile incidents documented by established security research organizations, and no known law enforcement actions have been publicly reported against this group. The current operational status of shinyhunters remains active based on available reporting, though comprehensive threat intelligence profiles from major security firms like Mandiant, CrowdStrike, or government agencies have not yet been published due to the group's recent appearance in the threat landscape. The group has been linked to 151 public disclosures across our corpus. First observed on a leak site on October 3, 2025; most recent post August 14, 2026. The operation is currently active.

Timeline of this disclosure

August 14, 2026Carhartt, Inc. listed by shinyhunterson the group's public leak site

Other recent disclosures by shinyhunters

shinyhunters has been linked to 151 public victims on Darkfield. A sample of the most recent:

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Sector and geography

This disclosure adds to ransomware activity in the Retail & E-Commerce sector, which has 18 disclosures indexed across all operators we track. Geographically, Carhartt, Inc. is reported in United States, a country with 3,162 ransomware disclosures in our corpus.

If your organisation is affected

A listing by shinyhunters means Carhartt, Inc. appeared on a ransomware extortion site and data attributed to it has been published. If this is your organisation, or a supplier you depend on, the priority is to confirm the intrusion and contain it before the window to act closes.

Engage your incident-response team and preserve forensic evidence before remediating — do not wipe affected systems first.
Force a password reset and revoke active sessions for exposed accounts; rotate any credentials, API keys or certificates that may have been in the stolen data.
Assess regulatory notification duties (GDPR, NIS2, sector regulators) — many carry a 72-hour reporting clock from awareness.
Report the incident to your national CERT, CISA (United States), as required for your jurisdiction.
Monitor for the data appearing on shinyhunters's leak site and across paste and breach channels, and brief downstream partners who may be exposed through you.

How we know this. Darkfield monitors public ransomware leak sites continuously, archiving every new disclosure and the data later released against the victim. Each entry on this page is sourced from the operator's own publication and cross-checked against complementary OSINT feeds (RansomLook, ransomware.live, RansomWatch). We do not collect or host stolen data — only the metadata, timestamps and screenshots needed to make the public disclosure searchable and accountable. Records here are corrected when the original post is edited, retracted, or merged with another disclosure.