{"id":242417,"date":"2026-05-26T13:04:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T13:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/7-eleven-data-breach-affects-over-185000-peoples-personal-data-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T13:04:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T13:04:56","slug":"7-eleven-data-breach-affects-over-185000-peoples-personal-data-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/7-eleven-data-breach-affects-over-185000-peoples-personal-data-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"7-Eleven data breach affects over 185,000 people&#8217;s personal data | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Data breach notification service <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/haveibeenpwned.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Have I Been Pwned<\/a> says a data breach at convenience store chain 7-Eleven affects over 185,000 people, including their names, dates of birth, and physical addresses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The data breach, reported in April, also included phone numbers and email addresses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Have I Been Pwned, which collects caches of data breaches and alerts affected individuals that their data was compromised, said <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/haveibeenpwned.com\/Breach\/7-Eleven\" target=\"_blank\">in a new listing<\/a> that 7-Eleven was the victim of a hack-and-extortion attack. The ShinyHunters group took credit for the breach, saying they would publish the data if they weren\u2019t paid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Per a listing with <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maine.gov\/agviewer\/content\/ag\/985235c7-cb95-4be2-8792-a1252b4f8318\/4fe778c0-a3a9-4dbe-8e79-2c229ac5c36b.html\" target=\"_blank\">Maine\u2019s attorney general\u2019s office<\/a>, 7-Eleven chief information security officer Jim Kastle said the hackers gained access to an internal server containing franchisee documents.\u00a0A separate listing with Massachusetts\u2019 attorney general <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/doc\/data-breach-report-2026\/download\" target=\"_blank\">said the breach<\/a> also included Social Security numbers and driver\u2019s licenses.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/05\/26\/7-eleven-data-breach-affects-over-185000-peoples-personal-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned says a data breach at convenience store chain 7-Eleven affects over 185,000 people, including their names, dates of birth, and physical addresses. The data breach, reported in April, also included phone numbers and email addresses. Have I Been Pwned, which collects caches of data breaches and alerts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":242418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-242417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}