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JCPenney breach: 368,418 accounts exposed

In June 2026, retailer JCPenney and associated brands were targeted in a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion campaign . Data allegedly obtained from JCPenney through the exploitation of a critical zero-day vulnerability in Oracle PeopleSoft was later published publicly.

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What happened

In June 2026, retailer JCPenney and associated brands were targeted in a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion campaign . Data allegedly obtained from JCPenney through the exploitation of a critical zero-day vulnerability in Oracle PeopleSoft was later published publicly. The exposed records indicated they primarily related to internal HR systems and impacted current and former employees.

The data included 368k corporate and personal email addresses, names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, phone numbers and home addresses.

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    Have I Been Pwned: JCPenney (opens a new tab)

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APA

KEVWire. (2026, June 20). JCPenney breach: 368,418 accounts exposed. https://kevwire.com/record/hibp-jcpenney

MLA

"JCPenney breach: 368,418 accounts exposed." KEVWire, 20 June 2026, kevwire.com/record/hibp-jcpenney.

Chicago

KEVWire. "JCPenney breach: 368,418 accounts exposed." Last modified June 20, 2026. https://kevwire.com/record/hibp-jcpenney.

Evidence summary (plain text)

JCPenney breach: 368,418 accounts exposed (Jun 20, 2026).
In June 2026, retailer JCPenney and associated brands were targeted in a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion campaign . Data allegedly obtained from JCPenney through the exploitation of a critical zero-day vulnerability in Oracle PeopleSoft was later published publicly. The exposed records indicated they primarily related to internal HR systems and impacted current and former employees. The data included 368k corporate and personal email addresses, names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, phone numbers and home addresses.
Sources:
Have I Been Pwned: JCPenney: https://haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/JCPenney
Have I Been Pwned breach API: https://haveibeenpwned.com/api/v3/breaches
Record ID: hibp-jcpenney.
Record origin: Ingested record.
AI evidence: Not assessed.
About this data

This record was ingested from a data source. Retrieved: Oct 27, 2026, 01:25 UTC. Ingestion is not an independent editorial investigation.

Verified by Have I Been Pwned. Breach date: 2026-06-12; loaded 2026-06-20. Exposed data: Dates of birth, Email addresses, Government issued IDs, Job titles, Names, Phone numbers, Physical addresses, Usernames. Counts are accounts in the loaded data, not necessarily distinct people.

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